Brian Lawson

Brian Lawson is a dance performer and educator who began dancing in Toronto, Canada. He earned his BFA in dance at SUNY Purchase and while studying performed with Douglas Dunn and Dancers and the Mark Morris Dance Group. He graduated summa cum laude in 2010 and went on to work with Pam Tanowitz Dance and Dance Heginbotham before joining the Mark Morris Dance Group from 2011–18. He left MMDG to earn his MFA from the University of Washington, where he graduated in 2020. Currently, he is a visiting assistant professor at Skidmore College and a member of Pam Tanowitz Dance. He has served on the faculty at Cornish College of the Arts and has given master classes at Purchase College, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and the American Dance Festival, among others.