Archive - Gypsy Fires

KALIPEN: Darkness in Sinti and Roma Culture

Deep time, movement and the illegitimacy of light supremacy

Aug 14 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

Micro-Dance 2: Finger Snapping

A video lesson for spatial sensitivity, fascial snapping and awakening the brain with noisy play

Aug 12 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

Romani Journeys Through Time: Survival Across Continents

Russell Patrick Brown, PhD and Alex Carberry's live video on empire, genocide and how we remember in lived experience

Aug 7 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD and Alex Carberry

1:19:53

July 2026

Bankers Always Use New Tech To Burn Books

From 10th-century Gypsy block-printing to AI scrapers: why the machine centralizes knowledge, and how the Library of the Body outlives it

Jul 31 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

Awakening Ancestral Guidance Through Timespinning

Choreonavigating Creativity in Crisis: Weaving Broken Traditions

Jul 30 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

Micro-Dance 1: Chest Slapping

Tapping the heart to disrupt corporate mind-fracking, remember who you are and decolonize destiny

Jul 24 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

Taking Back What Was Stolen

Body Rhythm & The Road to Reclaiming Tradition

Jul 24 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

Male Loneliness

The Call to Get Lost

Jul 17 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

Looking for the Disappeared in the Dance of Fetters

How rhythm remembers the taken

Jul 14 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

How to Colonize a Field in 2026: A Case Study in Academic Extraction

From Bohemian Groves to elite university presses, how institutions commodify Gypsy lore while displacing living Roma scholars

Jul 7 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

Choreonavigating Creativity Through Hopelessness

When Wellness Fails in a World at War

Jul 3 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

28:07

June 2026

From Corsets to Six-Pack Abs: The Empire Is Still Shaping Your Body

Making Dance the Map of Your Life

Jun 16 • Russell Patrick Brown, PhD

11:20

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