About Brittany

Brittany Engel-Adams is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in Brooklyn. She attended the Alvin Ailey School and was the recipient of the Oprah Winfrey Fellowship. Later, she performed with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater during their NYC seasons, and was a company member of Ailey II. While living in Tel aviv she trained at the Suzanne Dellal Center with Ohad Naharin and the Batsheva dancers. Learning and practicing Naharin’s movement language “gaga”. Brittany has performed across disciplines for projects like, Sleep No More immersive theater, EMPAC dance film commission directed by Orit Ben- Shitrit and Naomi Goldberg Haas site-specific work. She collaborated with Danaka dance, Dance the yard and Company Stefanie Batten Bland. She is featured in the film “Chiraq”; directed by Spike Lee, and is a co-star in the HBO series “Boardwalk Empire”; Brittany has taught at the Ailey school, Broadway Dance Center, NYU Tisch school of the Arts, ACDA Mid-Atlantic North Conference and DanceWave College Fair. She has been on faculty at Brooklyn Ballet, Joffrey Ballet school, and Steps on Broadway. Her choreography has been presented at Symphony Space, Kumble Theater, Victoria J. Mastrobuono Theater and PS 261. Brittany currently dances with Netta Yerushalmy and Donna Uchizono Company. She serves as a part-time lecturer at Rutgers University.