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Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Venue: Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Time: 7:30 - 9:00 PM
Event Types: Music, Arts & Theatre
Cost:
Adult Tickets (based on seat location): • Category A: $45.00 • Category B: $35.00 • Category C: $20.00

Students with ID and Youth 18 and Under: $10.00 20%-30% subscription discounts also available

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Description:
The Moss Arts Center at Virginia Tech presents Camille A. Brown & Dancers on Wednesday, October 16, 2019.

Accompanied by live music, the company will perform excerpts from Mr. TOL E. RAncE (winner of a 2014 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production), BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play (featuring a female duet with Brown), ink, and the piece New Second Line. ink is Brown’s newest work and the final installation of the company’s trilogy about culture, race, and identity. Drawing on historic and contemporary rhythms, rituals, and gestural vocabulary of the African diaspora, ink reclaims African-American narratives by showcasing their authenticity. The work examines the culture of black life that is often appropriated, rewritten, or silenced.

Camille A. Brown & Dancers is a Bessie Award-winning, New York City-based dance company advancing the artistic vision of Camille A. Brown. Founded in 2006 the company performs locally and across the world, inviting audiences into stories and dialogues about race, culture, and identity.

The work uses theatricality and the aesthetics of Modern, Hip hop, African, Ballet, and Tap to tell stories that connect history with contemporary culture. Strongly character-based, it expresses each topic by building from little moments, modeling a filmic sensibility. Theater, poetry, visual art, and music of all genres merge to inject each performance with energy and urgency.

The company has performed at national and international venues, including The Joyce Theater, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, The Yard, American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival, New York City Center’s Fall for Dance Festival, Celebrate Brooklyn, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, The Kitchen, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, World Music/CRASHarts, The Kumble Theater, Atlas Performing Arts Center, The Egg, The Kravis Center, White Bird and Belfast Festival at Queen’s (Belfast, Ireland). In 2014, CABD received the Bessie Award for Outstanding Production for “Mr. TOL E. RAncE.”

Links:

• http://www.camilleabrown.org/
• https://www.facebook.com/camilleabrownanddancers

Camille A. Brown & Dancers is a Bessie Award-winning, New York City-based dance company advancing the artistic vision of Camille A. Brown. Making a personal claim on history, through the lens of a modern female perspective, Brown leads her dancers through dazzling excavations of ancestral stories. The company’s performance will include an excerpt from “ink,” Brown’s newest work, which examines the culture of black life that is often appropriated, rewritten, or silenced.

Tickets can be purchased online, in person at the Moss Arts Center Box Office Monday-Friday from 10:00 am - 5:30 pm and Saturday 10:00 am - 4:00 pm and by phone at 540-231-5300.

To purchase tickets online, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/camille-a-brown-dancers.html.

For more information, visit: https://artscenter.vt.edu/performances/camille-a-brown-dancers.html or https://www.facebook.com/artscenteratvt or https://www.instagram.com/artscenteratvt/.