About Bre

Bre Seals-Rankin is an Atlanta-born, interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, director, visual creative, and arts educator whose work operates at the intersection of movement, color theory, cultural storytelling, and embodied research. Her artistic practice unifies dance, visual art, creative direction, and community engagement into a single, recognizable voice rooted in Black futurism, sensory experience, and lived testimony.

Trained at the California Institute of the Arts and Howard University, and currently completing her B.A. in Dance with a minor in Music & Culture at the University of Maryland, Bre’s work integrates technical foundation with conceptual inquiry. Motivated by her experience as a Black woman with synesthesia, she developed Sealsism, a trademarked movement methodology that maps emotional and sonic identity through color-driven, sensory-responsive movement. This philosophy informs both her choreography and her visual art, positioning her work as a multi-medium language rather than a single discipline.

In 2013, Bre founded BREathe Dance Project, an independent creative platform committed to cultivating, presenting, and archiving Black movement innovation. As Artistic Director, she has created and presented work at the D.C. District Choreography Festival, The Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Dance Place New Releases Commission, and through her independently produced evening-length work Leap Without Limits. The company has also appeared at the International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference, the DC District Dance Festival, and is supported by organizations including the Maryland State Arts Council and the Honfleur Women in Arts Grant.

Bre’s impact extends beyond choreography into public thought, artistry, and community-based learning. In TEDxFoggyBottom 2017, she delivered a TEDx Talk and presented a live performance with BREathe Dance Project, merging theory, embodiment, and creative testimony in one platform. As a painter, her work has been exhibited at the Black Girl Art Show (2023) and Joe’s Movement Emporium: Carbon Ate Afrofuturism Exhibition (2024), where her kaleidoscopic, movement-inspired paintings further explore her sensory-based color language.

Committed to expanding how art is experienced, not just seen, Bre is developing immersive, interdisciplinary models that dissolve boundaries between audience, performer, and creator. Her work centers emotional clarity, imaginative rigor, cultural legacy, and accessible artistry — offering not just performances or products, but experiences that feel lived, remembered, and returned to.

Bre is a modern renaissance artist whose body of work reflects vision, discipline, originality, and community-centered impact. She builds worlds, not projects — and invites others not just to witness them, but to enter, feel, and transform inside them.