Unrestricted grants—those not tied to a specific project or commission—are the holy grail of dance funding. But how do dance artists accustomed to living from project to project handle the sudden influx of capital? We asked three choreographers who’ve won these grants multiple times about their experiences. Kyle Abraham Kyle Abraham has used the money […]

The biggest weekend in Broadway is finally upon us: The Tony Awards are this Sunday (airing at 8 pm EST on CBS). While other media outlets might be busy forecasting winners, we’re speculating about the dancing we might get to see during the broadcast. Needless to say, we have a few ideas. First off, let’s […]

As one of the most celebrated concert dance choreographers working today, a Broadway musical felt like a natural next step for Camille A. Brown. She’d already dabbled in choreography for musical theater and plays. Plus, she tells rich, vivid stories in her concert work about the struggles and triumphs of being a black woman in […]

When 59-second clips of “This is America” began to take over my Insta feed last week, I didn’t know how to feel. Graphic images from the music video showed the execution of a man with a guitar and the mass shooting of a church choir. What truly struck me was physical and facial animation of […]

“Should I watch it to get a sense of what happened, or should I go with my own vision and understanding of the culture?” That’s what choreographer Camille A. Brown was wondering in June, when she started work on the Broadway revival of the Antilles-themed musical Once on This Island. The 1990 show, directed originally […]

Camille A. Brown is part of an elite coterie: black women who have choreographed for the Broadway stage. Once on This Island won’t be the first time she’s listed as choreographer—she provided the moves for the 2012 revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, following in the footsteps of Dianne McIntyre and Hope Clarke, who’ve also […]

If The Nutcracker just isn’t doing it for you this season, stay #woke with these three shows. Camille A. Brown Delivers a Double Whammy WASHINGTON, DC Camille A. Brown isn’t known for pulling punches. As part of her Kennedy Center debut, she’ll premiere ink, an examination of African-American rituals and gestural language co-commissioned by The […]

The closing months of the 2016–17 season brought a glut of extraordinary music and dance to Broadway’s stages, and the superabundance has left 2017–18 looking a bit anemic. Partly it’s real estate—there are only so many Broadway theaters; in June, nearly three dozen were occupied. The only musical scheduled to open this summer was Prince […]