THE COMPANY
Known for high theatricality, gutsy moves and virtuosic musicality, Camille A. Brown & Dancers soar through history like a whirlwind. The company's work explores typical, real life situations ranging from literal relationships to more complex themes with an eye on the past and present. Making a personal claim on history, through the lens of a modern female perspective, Camille A. Brown leads her dancers through dazzling excavations of ancestral stories, both timeless and traditional, as well as immediate contemporary issues. The work is strongly character based, expressing whatever the topic is by building from little moments, modeling a filmic sensibility. Theater, poetry, visual art and music of all genres merge to inject each performance with energy and urgency.
The ensemble has performed in many venues both nationally and internationally, including The Joyce Theater, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Joyce SoHo, Dance Theater Workshop, City Center's Fall for Dance Festival, The Skirball Center, Aaron Davis Hall, Fire Island Dance Festival (DRA), Symphony Space, Dance Place, Washington, DC; Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas, Seattle, WA; and Perry-Mansfield's New Works Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO.
These opportunities are possible because of the serious movers and incredible performers in the company who are able to act and dance, step into the world of history, and come soaring into the present. Camille A. Brown & Dancers seek to connect with people, make them feel good, provoke, engage, and inspire. Let’s begin.
"Every aspect of the dance-making here is thoroughly accomplished" -The New York Times
Artistic Director/Choreographer
CAMILLE A. BROWN, originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York, is interested in that space between dance and theater where interdisciplinary work defies category and takes flight. Informed by her music background as a clarinetist, she creates choreography that utilizes musical composition as storytelling- investigating the silent space within the measure. She builds dance vocabulary from a very personal place. Characters are facets of her life, her experience as a lens into the past and the present.
The 2012 recipient of The Mariam McGlone Emerging Choreographer Award, and a Princess Grace Award Winning Choreographer, Camille (according to The Boston Globe), "is a storyteller, with many tales to tell." She received a 2011 Bessie nomination for Outstanding Individual Performance in her work, The Evolution Of A Secured Feminine, and is 1 of 4 choreographers selected as a Choreographic Fellow for Ailey's New Directions Choreography Lab under the direction of Robert Battle.
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Known for high theatricality, gutsy moves and virtuosic musicality, Camille A. Brown & Dancers soar through history like a whirlwind. The company's work explores typical, real life situations ranging from literal relationships to more complex themes with an eye on the past and present. Making a personal claim on history, through the lens of a modern female perspective, Camille A. Brown leads her dancers through dazzling excavations of ancestral stories, both timeless and traditional, as well as immediate contemporary issues. The work is strongly character based, expressing whatever the topic is by building from little moments, modeling a filmic sensibility. Theater, poetry, visual art and music of all genres merge to inject each performance with energy and urgency.
The ensemble has performed in many venues both nationally and internationally, including The Joyce Theater, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, Joyce SoHo, Dance Theater Workshop, City Center's Fall for Dance Festival, The Skirball Center, Aaron Davis Hall, Fire Island Dance Festival (DRA), Symphony Space, Dance Place, Washington, DC; Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas, Seattle, WA; and Perry-Mansfield's New Works Festival in Steamboat Springs, CO.
These opportunities are possible because of the serious movers and incredible performers in the company who are able to act and dance, step into the world of history, and come soaring into the present. Camille A. Brown & Dancers seek to connect with people, make them feel good, provoke, engage, and inspire. Let’s begin.
"Every aspect of the dance-making here is thoroughly accomplished" -The New York Times
Artistic Director/Choreographer
CAMILLE A. BROWN, originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York, is interested in that space between dance and theater where interdisciplinary work defies category and takes flight. Informed by her music background as a clarinetist, she creates choreography that utilizes musical composition as storytelling- investigating the silent space within the measure. She builds dance vocabulary from a very personal place. Characters are facets of her life, her experience as a lens into the past and the present.
The 2012 recipient of The Mariam McGlone Emerging Choreographer Award, and a Princess Grace Award Winning Choreographer, Camille (according to The Boston Globe), "is a storyteller, with many tales to tell." She received a 2011 Bessie nomination for Outstanding Individual Performance in her work, The Evolution Of A Secured Feminine, and is 1 of 4 choreographers selected as a Choreographic Fellow for Ailey's New Directions Choreography Lab under the direction of Robert Battle.
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