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Brinae Ali

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About Me

Alexandria "Brinae Ali" Bradley, a native from Flint, MI is a practioner of music. She expresses her love and knowledge through her voice and feet. She has been singing and tap dancing all of her natural born life. Blessings have been bestowed upon this young lady to be a memeber of Savion Glover's tap dance company called TiiDii for four years. Performing at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001, 2002 Winter Olympics, Monaco, France Nijinski Awards, and Improvography at the Joyce Theater, and many other performances throughout the counrty. She was a tap professor at Queens COllege and Long Island University along with Ted Levy. She was a featured poet/tap dancer/vocalist at the Knitting Factory with Reg E Gaines Pure Project and Berlin Suite. In 2004 she was in a production as one of the main acts singing and tap dancing in Hamburg,Germany for 4 months. Bradley was also a featured artist in THIS WOMANS WORK B-Girl Blues The Demise of a Femme Fatale choreographed by Princess Mhoon Cooper at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. Alexandria is also the co-producer of the Tapology Festival for Youth. She is inspired and gives respect and honor to Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Betty Carter, Stevie Wonder, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Bob Marley, Fela Kuti, Miriam Makeba, Ralph Brown, Lois Miller, Bill Robinson, Gregory Hines, Baby Lawrence, and other innovative artists who have ascended to a higher existence.


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Member Since: 12/9/2005
Band Website: tapology.org, [email protected]
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Brinae Ali: What Happens to a Dream Deferred?In the Lab > Features >  Mar 25, 2008  by Simóne Banks del.icio.us Digg"I'm driven to carry the torch and to pass on and do it in a really big way....
Posted by Brinae Ali on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:52:00 PST