Same As Sister

Artist

Led by twin choreographers Hilary Brown-Istrefi and Briana Brown-Tipley, Same As Sister (S.A.S.) is a bi-national performance collective celebrating 12 years of collaborative and interdisciplinary storytelling. Their performance and film commissions have been presented and screened internationally at venues including The Citadel: Ross Centre for Dance (Toronto); Base: Experimental Arts + Space (Seattle); Archaeological Museum of Messenia (Greece); Centre d’Art Marnay Art Centre (France); Danspace Project, BRIC, and New York Live Arts (NYC). Awards, recognition, and funding include Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts’ 2022 Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominee for Outstanding Production (This is NOT a Remount); Jerome Foundation’s 2021-22 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow Finalist and Alternate; Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergency Grantee (2022 and 2017); Queens Council on the Arts’ Queens Arts Fund 2020 New Work Grantee; and New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts’ 2019 Artist Fellow.