Brittany Pate (She/Her) began her dance training in her hometown of Boulder, CO at the age of six, eventually joining the Boulder Ballet Company as an apprentice in 2008. She has spent summers studying with Kansas City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, LINES Ballet, and The San Francisco Conservatory of Dance. She graduated from Colorado State University in 2013 with a B.A. in Dance, where she studied under distinguished faculty including Carol Roderick, Chung-Fu Chang, Judy Bejarano and others. Brittany has worked with many companies and choreographers across the Twin Cities including Zoé Emilie Henrot, Mathew Janczewski, Marciano Silva Dos Santos, Regina Peluso, Sally Rousse, St. Paul Ballet, and The Guthrie Theater. 

Brittany is committed to mentorship of young artists as individuals and has created programs that promote positive body image as well as mental and physical well being. She created the “Take Back the Tutu” lecture series and photography campaign in collaboration with The Emily Program and Documentary Photographer, Caroline Yang in 2014 and also helped to originate BCL’s “Beyond the Mirror” program.