Dancer

Meredith Brown

Ailey II's Meredith Brown, photo by Nir Arieli
Meredith Brown Photo by Nir Arieli

Meredith Brown (Asheville, NC) began her dance training at a local studio in her hometown. She studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and she is a recent graduate of the Ailey/Fordham BFA Program, where she performed in Alvin Ailey’s Festa Barroca and Memoria during AILEY’s 2022 and 2023 New York City Center seasons. Brown also danced in Hope Boykin’s Chasing the Spirit at Jazz at Lincoln Center. She worked with Madison Hicks’ “The Moving Forward Collective,” and she is an alumni of the Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Program, where she worked with Sidra Bell, Rena Butler, and Antoine Vereecken. This is Brown’s first season with Ailey II.