Camille A. Brown & Dancers | I AM
September 12 @ 7:30 pm
Above: Alain ‘“Hurrikane” Lauture in “I AM” by Whitney Browne
Prior Presents 2024–25
Camille A. Brown & Dancers
I Am
Four-time Tony Award-nominated choreographer and director Camille A. Brown is a “prodigious” (VOGUE) Bessie, Obie, and Princess Grace Award-winning choreographer and director. She made history as the first Black director at the Metropolitan Opera to direct a mainstage production when she co-directed Fire Shut Up In My Bones (2021). With the Broadway revival of for colored girls… in 2022 (which earned her a Tony nomination for Best Direction of a Play), she became the first Black woman to direct and choreograph a Broadway play since Katherine Dunham in 1955.
Following her work as the choreographer of the new Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen, which led to a Tony Award nomination for Best Choreography, Brown returns to the roots of her own dance company, deepening her exploration of Black joy in a new work titled I AM.
“The dancers, strong, flexible, and clean in their moves, seem to exult in their physical prowess, and in the presence of each other, as if each one is challenging each other to go further, dance faster, jump higher, be their best selves. They have community in each other, and they radiate joy…”
— Bess Hochstein, Splash Magazines
(from her review of the world premiere of
I AM at Jacob’s Pillow – July 31, 2024)
Details
7:30 PM
Price
$45 | $35 | $25
Prices are subject to change without notice
Venue
Luth Concert Hall
The Prior Performing Arts Center