Today we’d like to introduce you to Brittney Jones. Them and their team share their story with us below:
Meet choreographer Brittney Jones-Wiley aka @KiddBritt. Born and raised in California, that’s where she started her dance journey with traditional Caribbean dance with Sistas-Wit-Style at the age of 9 and still reigns as the Princess of San Francisco Carnival in 2006. She has experience in hip-hop, jazz, and HBCU majorette-style dancing. Brittney started HBCU Style Majorette dancing in 2014 when she moved to Hampton, VA and attended Phoebus High School where she was first introduced to the genre of dance participating on the Sweet Essence danceline.
Brittney danced at Elizabeth City State University with the Marching Sound of Class as a member of Royal Blaze from 2015 to 2019, serving as captain for 3 years. ECSU is also where she became a member of the Iota Phi chapter of Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority Inc. in 2016. She also participated with the Va All-Star band and has worked with other collegiate VA dance lines such as Ebony Fire, Essence of Troy and Devine Elegance. She is also an active member of Synergy dance team and Dēl Soul Dance Theatre. Brittney has performed with local VA artists, opened up for Monica at Chrysler Hall, and danced on the 2022 Millennium Tour with TrillVille and Lil Scrappy. As a Kinesiologist, Brittney offers dance strength and conditioning, flexibility, and technique services to help others live and participate in a healthy dance lifestyle.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
With any passion, they’re always come bumps in the road. As a dancer, we hit artistic and creative brick walls, self-comparison to other dancers, and all kinds of different injuries which all momentarily stops us from moving forward in our journey. I myself have suffered many injuries such as concussions, knee injuries, ankle injuries, back injuries and shoulder injuries. Sometimes you just have to take a mental and physical break, especially when you hit those creative blocks so that you have a moment to digress and figure out how you want to continue your journey.
As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
The type of work I do is give music a physical form so that others may gaze upon and get a deeper meaning to whatever song I am dancing to. I specialize in hip-hop and majorette HBCU-style dancing. The thing that I am most proud of is becoming the captain of Royal Blaze danceline my sophomore year of college after only just learning the genre of Majorette dancing three years prior. The thing that sets me apart from others is I am a California-born and raised Dancer living on the east coast giving a different style of dance to the dance community.
Are there any books, apps, podcasts or blogs that help you do your best?
In all honesty, I prefer not to outsource when it comes to dance because I personally feel like I’m taking from other dancers because I see something I like and want to implement it in a dance that I am creating. Even though this is how making up routines typically goes, I like to try my best to be 100% original when it comes to choreography.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/kiddbritt?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
- Other: https://blinq.me/XXDAnijK1prKDNqGm1cr
Image Credits
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