Christal Brown: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival
Document Type
Featured Participant
Festival Date
10-10-2025
Location
Attucks Theatre (1010 Church Street)
Author/Artist Bio
Christal Brown is the founder of INSPIRIT, a dance company, and Project: BECOMING. Brown earned a BFA in Dance and a minor in Business from UNC-Greensboro, and an MFA in New Media Art and technology from Long Island Univ. She performed with Chuck Davis’ African-American Dance Ensemble, Andrea E. Woods/Souloworks and Gesel Mason Performance Projects, and apprenticed with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. Upon moving to NYC, Brown apprenticed with The Bill T. Jones/Arnie ZaneDance Co. before joining Urban Bush Women as a principal performer, community specialist and apprentice program coordinator. In 2018, after performing with Bebe Miller Company, Brown achieved a personal and professional milestone of dancing her way through the African diaspora.
Description
"What We Ask of Flesh" is an immersive dance and installation performance created by Christal Brown, her INSPIRIT dance company, and crew of technologists and composers. The performance took place on Friday, October 10, 2025, at 7:00 PM in the Attucks Theatre (1010 Church Street, Norfolk). It was inspired by Remica Bingham-Risher's work of the same title.
Recommended Citation
Brown, Christal, "Christal Brown: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival" (2025). 48th Annual Literary Festival at ODU: October 5-10, 2025. 3.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/litfest-2025/3