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Choreographic Sketches- An hour w/ Camille A. Brown on Blog Radio 

The Demystification Radio Series is a talk show that investigates the demystification of the choreographic/creative processes of choreographers, featuring African Diasporic choreographers. Hosted by the Founder/Director and Curator of Choreographic Sketches performance & choreography series, Jo Anna H. Norris.

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News Articles/Interview

The Star Ledger

Creative Loafing Arts & Entertainment

Telling Stories In Many Shades Of Delta Blue- for Dianne McIntrye and Olu Dara's work Peaches, Plums, and Pomegranates
 

The Philadelphia Inquirer (Garden State Festival review)

New York Times Reviews

NEW REVIEWS!

Camille A. Brown & Dancers (The Joyce Theater)- Danceviewtimes 

Camille A. Brown & Dancers (The Joyce Theater)- OFFOFFOFF 

Camille A. Brown & Dancers (Jacob's Pillow)- The Bostone Globe

Camille A. Brown & Dancers (Jacob's Pillow)- The Winsted Journal

"Brown's combination of dance styles, precision and fluidity, and remarkable musicality were enthralling."

-Mark Kanny (Pittsbrugh Tribune)

"Camille A. Brown closed the show with incredible poise and presence that seemed to ooze from her every pore.  This New York based choreographer performed a solo [Good & Grown] that grabbed the audience from the moment she stepped onto the stage until she bowed in obvious gratitude to finish.  One could only describe her as simply breathtaking."

-Adrienne Totino  (Pittsburgh Dance Examiner)

"...powerful kinetics and masterful visual complexity."

-The Philadelphia Inquirer

-iDANZ review from Apap 2010

"..Mary, is one of the most highly anticipated programs of the night.  Her backdrop is a beautiful collage of pictures of her grandmother in remembrance of her spirit. Camille matches the warmth on stage with a dashing flesh tone dress. There is no undercover talent here as Camille shines like a star on stage.  With the use of breath, her movements seem effortless. The lines created on her body are clean and exact, and the theatrical choreography draws me in emotionally and spiritually. The choreography speaks about a black woman’s hard work.  Strongly portrayed are signs of weakness, strength, happiness, regret and sorrow.  Each movement speaks the words of her story.  Camille opens the eyes and ears of the audience as she vividly reads us a story about her grandmother through dance.  Bravo Camille for a beautiful performance and for waking up the spirit of your grandmother on stage.

"Brown Scores! Her keen sense of choreography in 'Shelter' seamlessly guides her to do the right thing at the right time."

"Brown's attention to detail, and the intense pride on the faces and in the posture of these men, made this dance fulfilling to watch."

"The incomparable Camille A. Brown dances her solo to music by Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter and Nancy Wilson...Brown breezed onto the stage, a hat dipped low over her eyes, and launched into 'The Evolution of a Secured Feminine'. (What a title! But, by the end of this tour de force, you understand it.) It certainly could not be called quiet or small, but it had lots of tiny, vivid treasures, specific, focused movements danced with frightening control and pieced together like letters tapped out on a keyboard by a speed-demon-typist-with-attitude, and the message was "Don't fuck with me, sucker!" I adored this dance, and so did the audience who could not get enough of Brown"

"Support this woman. It's for your own good."

"In her new Matchstick...she [Ms. Brown] creates a physical and emotional environment in which four Black men in post-Civil War/pre-civil rights America--future leaders of a community--gather around a table strewn with papers to strategize, argue and perhaps resolve differences. Their movement--expressionist and often jarring--gives us a sense of their conflicts and their vital connection to one another...intriguing and powerful."

Quotes for The Groove To Nobody's Business- Alvin Ailey American

Dance Theater

 

"..delicious...Ms. Brown’s work is both expressive and economic-no words need."  

-Jennifer Dunning (The New York Times)

 "The Groove to Nobody's Business… its massively talentedcreator, Camille A Brown, is a [Queens]-born New Yorker aged just 27.  Brown creates a funky, laugh-a-minute dance sitcom around the meeting of strangers on a subway.  Bickering lovers, a bag lady, a city suit, a cheeky teenager and others jostle
for space on a bench and hilariously over-react to each others' everyday ticks. Part hip-hop, part manic physical rant, it's original and entertaining in equal measure."

 

 

"The story line is original and entertaining...Ms. Brown did an excellent job developing stage characters through movement and interaction over the three sections. She also captured the unique entertainment quality that can be attained through contemporary choreography while also delivering a Broadway appeal that is sure to entertain any audience."

Quotes as a dancer with Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE:

"Camille A. Brown exerts a special draw on the eye; her movements range from explosive extensions to polyrhythmic articulation. Extending her presence far past her physical reach."

"Camille Brown, a fabulous performer, turns sexy into funny and eccentric. Bravo!"

"..the most startling discovery was Camille A. Brown, a pixie-ish powerhouse with the determined air of a high priestess."

"Finally, the company performed Grace... danced just as superbly here, particularly by the small, beautiful, and technically bravura Camille A. Brown"

"I Didn't Know What Time It Was' kick started the show with Latin drums and Freelon's upbeat delivery, as well as the giddy punch of dancer Camille Brown. Brown's solo was a mixture of thrashing African ritual dance, grandly unfolding balances and cheesecake poses. It was by turns ecstatic and serene, a portrait of a woman deliriously comfortable in her own skin"

"Led by the glorious Camille Brown as the heavenly monitor, the dancers’ bodies speak eloquently of enlightenment and community spirit"

Photo by Christopher Duggan- New Second Line