#acdfa

[abwwia]

For The First Time In 65 Years, Camille A. Brown Will Be The First Black Woman To Direct And Choreograph A Broadway Show - #congratulations

By Jeryl Brunner

#ForbesWomen

Just last week producers Nelle Nugent, Ron Simons and Kenneth Teaton announced that Camille A. Brown will direct the upcoming production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow is Enuf on Broadway in 2022. 

Read: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jerylbrunner/2021/08/22/for-the-first-time-in-65-years-camille-a-brown-will-be-the-first-black-woman-to-direct-and-choreograph-a-broadway-show/

Camille A. Brown is a dancer, choreographer, director and dance educator. She is the Founder & Artistic Director of Camille A. Brown & Dancers, and has congruently choreographed commissioned pieces for dance companies, Broadway shows, and universities. Brown started her career as a dancer in Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, A Dance Company, and was a guest artist with Rennie Harris Puremovement, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (2008 and 2011).

Brown has choreographed major Broadway shows such as Choir Boy, Once on This Island and Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert! that aired on NBC.

Brown also teaches dance and gives lectures to audiences at various universities such as Long Island University, Barnard College and ACDFA (University of Akron), among others. Via Wikipedia

Camille A. Brown

Photo by Whitney Browne

Camille A. Brown

photo byJOSEFINA SANTOS

#CamilleABrown #FirstBlackWoman #femaleDirector #broadwaydirector

#Choreographer #femalechoreogropher #BroadwayShow #dancer #femalechoreographer #danceeducator #womenindance #PalianSHOW #blackfemaleartist #blackwomen #herstory #blackherstory

[healingtheblackbody]

Spell Artist: Orlando Zane Hunter

Orlando Zane Hunter Jr. is an international artist and healer who creates from a Black womanist framework. Hunter is a co-founder of the collective Brother(hood) Dance! and a 2015/16 Dancing While Black Fellow. In their work, Hunter tackles issues resulting from a white supremacist system. She grew up dancing hip-hop and graduated with a BFA in Dance from Univ. of Minnesota where he acquired movement vocabularies such as Afro-Brazilian, West-African Guinea, and Contemporary Yorchha, a mix of yoga, a martial art form called Chhau, and Oddissi. While attending he performed works by Donald Byrd, Bill T. Jones, Carl Flink, Louis Falco, Colleen Thomas, Uri Sands, Stephen Petronio and Nora Chipaumire. His solo “Mutiny” was selected to represent the University of Minnesota at the 2011 ACDFA gala in Madison, Wisconsin.In 2014  he co-choreographed “Redbone: A Biomythography” that debuted at the Nuyorican Café, Wild Project Theater, Duke University: Women’s center, and Flight deck theater in Oakland, CA. Hunter studied GLBT activism and history in Amsterdam and Berlin. He has performed with Christal Brown/INspirit Dance Company, Contempo Physical Dance, Forces of Nature, Germaul Barnes, Andre Zachary/ Renegade Performance Group, Makeda Thomas, Erick Montes/ Danceable Projects, Threads Dance Project, TU Dance and Ananya Dance Theater, an all women of color company where they were the first male bodied member and toured with them to Trinidad & Tobago and Zimbabwe.

[perpichartsmn]

Orlando Hunter (Dance 2009) visited Perpich Arts High School as a guest artist for Dance and Theater students in mid-September. Hunter spent several days working with the students. He taught movement from the African diaspora, concentrating on the storytelling aspects while teaching movement from the specific regions. Hunter incorporated reflective writing in his teaching and called it “writing the truth.” He also presented at Perpich this summer for Minnesota dance educators, putting on two Dance/Talk, Talk/Dance sessions with a writing component. Mary Harding, Dance Teacher and Dance Education Specialist, said, “It was amazing to have Orlando back in the dance studio. It felt like we came full circle. He studied here at Perpich and since then has danced at the U of MN, New York, and around the world. He gave back to the Minnesota teachers and our students with such generosity and spirit. I can’t wait till he comes back to town again!” Orlando Hunter is a choreographer who researches, illustrates, and creates from an African-American male perspective. In his work he tackles issues resulting from a capitalistic imperialist patriarchal white supremacist system. Hunter grew up dancing hip-hop and graduated with a BFA in Dance from Univ. of Minnesota. His solo “Mutiny” was selected to represent the University of Minnesota at the 2011 ACDFA gala in Madison, Wisconsin. Orlando studied LGBT activism and history in Amsterdam and Berlin. He has performed with Christal Brown/INspirit Dance Company, Contempo Physical Dance, Forces of Nature, Makeda Thomas, Threads Dance Project, TU Dance, and Ananya Dance Theatre, an all-women company where he was the first male member and toured with them to Trinidad & Tobago and Zimbabwe. Hunter is a co-founder of the collective Brother(hood) Dance! . . . #perpich #artschool #art #performingarts #studioarts #minnesota #highschool #perpichschool #perpichartshighschool #perpichcenterforartseducation #alumni #guestartist #dance #literaryarts #mediaarts #music #theater #visualarts (at Perpich Center for Arts Education) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3c5TSxlxIR/?igshid=ocbxre54qtna

[suchreallyawfulpoetry]

I got nominated at my school to attend the American College Dance Festival in Scottsdale, Arizona in March 2013! Second year in a row. so so so so so excited! 

[fictionalreverie]

Holy shit my piece is going ACDFA.

[affablegalaxies]

"Contrarily We Roll Along" Choreographed by Kelsey Brikis

This Cool Hipster Piece I'll performing in this Friday!!!

[fairyosiris-blog]

So I'm dancing at the Kennedy Center in June

[I'd say this is a good reason for giving up my Vampire Weekend tickets]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[perpichartsmn]

Orlando Hunter (Dance 2009) visited Perpich Arts High School as a guest artist for Dance and Theater students in mid-September. Hunter spent several days working with the students. He taught movement from the African diaspora, concentrating on the storytelling aspects while teaching movement from the specific regions. Hunter incorporated reflective writing in his teaching and called it “writing the truth.” He also presented at Perpich this summer for Minnesota dance educators, putting on two Dance/Talk, Talk/Dance sessions with a writing component. Mary Harding, Dance Teacher and Dance Education Specialist, said, “It was amazing to have Orlando back in the dance studio. It felt like we came full circle. He studied here at Perpich and since then has danced at the U of MN, New York, and around the world. He gave back to the Minnesota teachers and our students with such generosity and spirit. I can’t wait till he comes back to town again!” Orlando Hunter is a choreographer who researches, illustrates, and creates from an African-American male perspective. In his work he tackles issues resulting from a capitalistic imperialist patriarchal white supremacist system. Hunter grew up dancing hip-hop and graduated with a BFA in Dance from Univ. of Minnesota. His solo “Mutiny” was selected to represent the University of Minnesota at the 2011 ACDFA gala in Madison, Wisconsin. Orlando studied LGBT activism and history in Amsterdam and Berlin. He has performed with Christal Brown/INspirit Dance Company, Contempo Physical Dance, Forces of Nature, Makeda Thomas, Threads Dance Project, TU Dance, and Ananya Dance Theatre, an all-women company where he was the first male member and toured with them to Trinidad & Tobago and Zimbabwe. Hunter is a co-founder of the collective Brother(hood) Dance! . . . #perpich #artschool #art #performingarts #studioarts #minnesota #highschool #perpichschool #perpichartshighschool #perpichcenterforartseducation #alumni #guestartist #dance #literaryarts #mediaarts #music #theater #visualarts (at Perpich Center for Arts Education) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3c5TSxlxIR/?igshid=ocbxre54qtna

[underdogsandlonewolves]

ACDF [American College Dance Festival]

I totally forgot to tell everyone I was going to be at ACDF this weekend. Today is the last day and it was so much fun!! I'm going to miss seeing other schools and taking classes from everyone. I haven't been on Tumblr all weekend, I think the only reason I survived is because I was dancing. Missed my tumblr peeps. Did anyone go to a different ACDF region?

[thelittleswan]

are any of you dancers that are dance majors in college going to ACDFA this year??

[rainbowdaiziez-blog]

i wanna be this happy all the time

floating on fucking air

[puckishpink-blog]

I'M SO FLIPPING EXCITED FOR ACDFA IT'S RIDICULOUS

[sugarintheflies-blog]

I did real contact improv for the first time, today.

Yes, ACDFA.  Yes.  

[morrmoves]

I’ve been dancing all day @ American College Dance Festival at the U of U. Took a contact improv class which was absolutely fantastic, followed by Latin club dancing, then finally a middle eastern dance class (which I thought would be Bollywoodish but, just turned out to be belly dancing.) Needless to same I’m exhausted, BUT I can now shake my hips around like a washing machine. Anybody need their laundry done?

[cashcoats]

ACDFA

starts tomorrow! it's going to be crazy. i haven't been to a dance convention/festival in years.

and it's like a little vacation but with modern, and ballet and tap. oh yeah and my dance film i made last semester.

so excite!

not excite to wake up at 7:00 AM though.