Brennan Delattre is an international partner dance instructor and psychological researcher at the University of Oxford. As an instructor, her teaching centers on facilitating connection by sharing interpersonally-focused techniques to create safe, healthy partner dance interactions. As a researcher, she studies the power of cooperative movement activities such as capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian dance/martial movement art, and salsa dancing for their potency as a cross-cultural, trans-global, non-verbal lingua franca, and on researching their efficacy for individual and communal mental health. From Minnesota to Vermont, from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to the United Kingdom, her dance and research journeys have been interwoven for more than a decade.

In addition to completing Fulbright research in Niterói and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she presently holds prestigious fellowships from the University of Oxford, including the Rachel Conrad Fellowship for Depression Efficacy Research, a Clarendon Fund Fellowship, and a Medical Sciences Division Studentship. 

Brennan has been teaching, choreographing, and performing partner dance for more than thirteen years, from ballroom dance to swing dance to Latin dance styles. She also has practiced and taught capoeira. 

Brennan is passionate about harnessing social dance and movement for cost-effective, accessible, non-invasive, and scalable approaches to mental health treatment for individuals with low mood and depression, and has woven her dance and research experience into a unique, interdisciplinary line of investigation with international mental healthcare implications.