What is a Movement Artist? A movement artist is an expert at creating original characters and creatures through unique body and facial movements and recreating animal movement for realistic and fantasy performances.
What is a Suit Performer? An actor who works inside a realistic animal costume, creature suit, life-size puppet, or as a character in prosthetics and special effects makeup.
Both specialties often go hand in hand. To excel at both you must be in excellent physical shape and be able to perform a wide range of on screen tasks from emotional and comedic scenes to dangerous stunts.
Brian La Rosa’s diverse talents have helped him to excel in both arenas.
A classically trained actor, improviser, dancer, director, athlete and even musician, Brian combines all of his training to service the individual needs of each project he works on.
Brian also works as a Movement Coordinator for projects that require a number of creature performances. He develops and trains other performers to duplicate the unique or realistic movement he has created and then serves as on set choreographer, working closely with the director to incorporate the action into the scene.
