New York, NY
Masterclass with Camille A. Brown
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- Ailey Extension
- 405 W 55th Street
- New York, NY
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Join four-time Tony Award-nominated choreographer and director Camille A. Brown, assisted by Chloe O. Davis, to learn Brown’s choreography for Broadway’s highly anticipated revival of Gypsy (The Majestic Theatre) as well as her Tony Award-nominated choreography from Hell’s Kitchen (The Shubert Theatre). Then, join Brown, assisted by SeQuoiia, to learn choreography from her latest work for Camille A. Brown & Dancers, I AM, which will be performed at The Joyce Theater February 5–9.
Live accompaniment will be provided by Martine Mauro-Wade.
Dancers of all levels ages 16+ are welcome to participate in the workshop. Participants are asked to arrive early to warm themselves up prior to class.
Pricing
Workshop Fee: $40
Students of The Ailey School can visit the Extension Desk or email [email protected] to receive $15 off their workshop fee with proof of ID.
About Camille
Camille A. Brown is critically acclaimed, prolific Black choreographer and director whose work taps into both ancestral and contemporary stories to capture a range of deeply personal experiences and cultural narratives of African American identity. Through the medium of dance, she is successfully balancing careers in stage, TV, and film.
Brown was the first Black woman since Katherine Dunham in 1955 to direct and choreograph a Broadway play for her work on for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, and she was the first Black artist at The Metropolitan Opera to direct a mainstage production, co-directing alongside James Robinson on Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones.
FAQs
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