What do you do when your teachers tell you your body is not the ideal ballet type? Camille A. Brown was not even invited to audition because of her body shape. Through perseverence she found her joy and love. "If you don't do with MOVES you, you will regret it in 20 years."
Camille A. Brown is a prolific choreographer who has achieved accolades and awards for her daring works. She tells stories from a black female perspective and is fascinated with tying history to her personal experiences and bringing those things to life. She injects black social dances into her work and incorporates these dances into her classes as a way to educate people about their origins.
AWARDS: A Bessie Award, Doris Duke Award, 2015 TED Fellow, National Dance Project award, The International Association of Blacks in Dance Founders Award, and two-time Princess Grace Award recipient.
Commissions include: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Philadanco, Urban Bush Women, Complexions, Ailey II, Ballet Memphis, and Hubbard Street II, & others.
Member: Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, A Dance Company, and was a guest artist with Rennie Harris’ Puremovement, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play, reveals the complexity of carving out a self-defined identity as a black female in urban American culture.
"As an artist, I drink the music-moving as a way that IS the music. There is no separation in my understanding of choreography, I move seamlessly between music, theatre and dance."
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