Interview: Camille A. Brown Shares the Advice That Changed Everything

Regardless of the production, Brown’s choreography is a dance of precision and passion, blending the right amount of sharpness with the fluidity of surrendering to the moment - but always infused with the singular trait that makes Brown quintessentially Brown: joy. Her work is rooted in exploring the culture and personal experience of being African American — something she’s now been able to share with thousands of theatergoers.”

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Gwendolyn Baum
Interview: Camille A. Brown and the Liberation of Gypsy

“For the first time in the six-decade Broadway history of Gypsy, Jerome Robbins’s original dances are nowhere to be found. Gone are the strobe-lit transitions that aged News Boys into Farm Boys and the multilayered strip routine that transformed Louise into Gypsy Rose Lee. The new choreography, crafted by Tony nominee Camille A. Brown, is radically different, not only from Robbins’s iconic steps, but Brown’s own signature style.”

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Gwendolyn Baum
Tony nominee Camille A. Brown on cooking up choreography for ‘Hell’s Kitchen’

“If you only see one show this season, you must make it the Alicia Keys’s musical “Hell’s Kitchen.” Not just for the music, which features many Alicia Keys songs, or for the storyline, which tells a bit of her story in growing up in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood—you must see it for the stunning choreography that makes the show vibrant and flow in a way that will leave you captivated. The choreography is the work of Camille A. Brown, who is currently nominated for a Tony Award. Brown recently discussed her specific inspirations with the AmNews for the choreography that she created and shared her process.”

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Gwendolyn Baum