Ms. Brown is the founder of the Philadelphia Dance Company (PHILADANCO)
and The Philadelphia School of Dance Arts. She serves as honorary chairperson for the International Association of Blacks in Dance, an organization she established in 1991. She is also founder of the International Conference of Black Dance Companies.
She is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts, which bestowed upon her an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, and is a member of the dance faculty at Howard University in Washington, DC. Listed in Who’s Who in America and described as an "innovator and communicator," Ms. Brown has made significant contributions to the national and international arts communities.
Joan Myers Brown has served a broad range of regional and national organizations, including NEFA’s National Dance Project, the United States Information Agency, Arts America, the National Endowment for the Arts; the Arts Councils of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Michigan, Nevada, and Ohio; the National Forum for Female Executives. Locally, she has been a part of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, the Minority Arts Resource Council, the Philadelphia Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council, the Philadelphia Dance Alliance, The Women’s Heritage Society, Dance/USA and the Coalition of African American Cultural Organizations, which she served as vice president.
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