Training
| SUNY PURCHASE ACTING CONSERVATORY | New York, USA |
| GARDZIENICE CENTER FOR THEATER PRACTICES | Lublin, Poland |
| THE SITI COMPANY | New York, USA |
| INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS EXCHANGE Joseph Nadj, Peter Brook | Avignon, France |
| LAMAMA INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORS SYMPOSIUM Tina Landau (US), Ping Chong (US), Jean Guy Lecat (France), John Jesurun (US), Rina Yerushalmi (Isreal), Arben Kumbaro (Albania). | Spoleto, Italy |
Solo Works
| UNDERGROUND An inhuman creature explores an underground foreign world of light and texture. | WIR Gallery | Berlin, Germany |
| INTIMATE Three people at a time are invited to enter a small secluded space, and share an intimate experience with the performer, while the others watch in close proximity. | VolksLuxus | Berlin, Germany |
| LOOK. FEEL A new performance installation which confronts proximity and intimacy. | Haus am Lützowplatz | Berlin, Germany |
| UNTITLED (DO YOU TRUST ME?) an experiential experiment, performed for one person at a time in the dark. | Infernoesque | Berlin, Germany |
| ESSENTIAL INVISIBLE REGION A performance piece based on The Order of Things by Michel Foucault. | K-Salon | Berlin, Germany |
| LULLABY Full length experiential performance in light, sound, smell, movement, and images | 401contemporary | Berlin, Germany |
| IN PROCESS A series of site-specific durational performance installations | 401contemporary | Berlin, Germany |
| SKINLESS A site-specific “living sculpture” with text, dealing with personal/societal evolution | Scalamata Gallery Miss Micks | Venice, Italy Berlin, Germany |
| SEEING RED A performance in fire and images, commissioned for Lynchmob Festival | .HBC | Berlin, Germany |
| THE BOX An interactive live art installation twisting the notions of observer and observed | .HBC | Berlin, Germany |
| UNDERNEATH Interactive dance piece about the joys and dangers of debauchery | LORELEY | Berlin, Germany |
Collaborative Works
The following selected credits are all multidisciplinary devised productions which Brina has collaborated to create as well as perform:
New York Credits
| BETWEEN THE SHADOWS A wordless comment on war, inspired by film noir and German expressionism. | Rania Khalil | HERE ArtsCenter |
| IPH.THEN Examining identity through modern media using dance, opera, cell phones, internet. | Peter Campbell | Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater |
| POETICS A 38 performer interactive exploration of the definition of performance. | Nature Theater of Oklahoma | The Public Theater |
| THE BABY PROJECT A look at how society defines and destroys itself when faced with the incredible. (writer/director) | Brina Stinehelfer, Per Aspera | CSV Cultural Center |
Berlin Credits
| CUT PROJECT A multi-lingual, multi-disciplinary performance art event explore the impact that tremendous political and social changes (macrocosm) have in our lives (microcosm). | Theater Entropia | Tacheles |
| HAPPINESS NOW An interactive performative experiment centering around the pursuit of happiness | Brina Stinehelfer, Per Aspera | HAU 1 |
| 5 DAYS OF DOOM Mixed media performance created with graffiti artists Agents of Change (London) | Brina Stinehelfer, Per Aspera | 401contemporary |
| CONVULSIONS IN THE CITY Music and dance performance about finding escape in a frenetic society | Convulsions (BE) | Kunsthaus Tacheles |
| NAPOLEON D. A choreographic challenge of reinterpretation of alienation in Napoleon Dynamite | Martin Clausen, Post Theater | Dock 11 |
| SAVING THE WORLD Interactive video about 4 peoples journey to save the world. (production assistant) | Gob Squad | HAU 2 |
| DIE MIGRANTEN Performance action about the immigrant experience in Berlin | Tania Bruguera | Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt |
| OPULENTE DREHMOMENT Interactive movement piece using black light technology on ideas of “the other” | Psy-form Project | Location Neuköln |
International Credits
| HAMLET A remixing of the classic Richard Burton film (Production Assistant) | The Wooster Group | Barcelona, Spain |
| MIRAGE INTER International collaboration on cultural, national and social identity | Doppelgänger | Belgrade, Serbia |
| IPHIGENIA… A retelling of the Iphigenia myth in a postmodern, drug/sex crazed fascist state | One Year Lease | Athens, Greece |
| AMOUR INTERDIT Site specific tale of forbidden love, presented as part of the Avignon off festival | Brina Stinehelfer, Per Aspera | Avignon, France |
| WILD ANIMUS Touring interactive performance art project exploring the dichotomy of masculine/feminine, human/animal, performed over 100 times around the world. | Ivan Talijancic | Varied International Locations |