Brandon Powers
Director - Choreographer
Brandon Powers is a creative director + choreographer who creates experiences across physical and virtual space. His work focuses on capturing liveness in the digital, building interdisciplinary communities, and shifting culture towards a more embodied future. Brandon harnessed his knowledge as a movement practitioner to devise Embodiment Design, a methodology for designing more human-centered XR experiences. His key projects include VR saga Queerskins: ARK (Venice International Film Festival), for which he created interactive choreography, Frankenstein AI (Sundance Film Festival), an AI-powered immersive installation, and Duet (New York Live Arts), a movement ritual for virtual reality.
On TikTok, Brandon has grown a community of over 70,000 inviting audiences into the process of creating theatre and dance. He founded constellation, an immersive strategy and production studio building engaged digital communities and multi-platform experiences for theatrical properties. Brandon is on staff at Musical Theatre Factory, where he leads MTFxR, a program supporting the development of XR musical theatre experiences. He is a Onassis ONX Studio member, NEW INC alum, and has spoken on the intersection of arts and technology across the world at New Images, TCG National Conference, Verizon’s 5G Lab, Lincoln Center and more.