OZ Arts Nashville

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2018 | 8 PM
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2018 | 7 PM
$69 Per Person

About ink

ink celebrates the rituals, gestural vocabulary, and traditions that remain ingrained within the lineage of the African Diaspora and authentically celebrates African-American narratives and identity. In collaboration with Music Director Allison Miller, percussionist Wilson Torres, violinist Juliette Jones, and composer/pianist Scott Patterson, ink, is the final installation of Brown’s dance theatre trilogy about identity.

Using the rhythms and sounds of traditional African and handmade instruments as its center, the work travels through time with elements of Blues, Hip-Hop, Jazz, and Swing. This musical landscape embodies its own storytelling. The movement is an amalgamation of African-American social dance, African, Tap, Jazz, Modern, and Hip-Hop. Through self-empowerment, Black love, brotherhood, exhaustion and resilience, community and fellowship, ink depicts the pedestrian interactions of individuals and relationships as grounds for accessing one’s innate superpowers and finding liberation.

 

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About Camille A. Brown

Dance Magazine, in a piece about Camille A. Brown, placed the renowned choreographer in the company of television producer Shonda Rhimes and film director Ava DuVernay,“part of a cultural movement of black female artists who are redefining how African-American stories are told: with humanity, sensitivity, depth and intellectual sophistication.”

Her bold creations—including NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert and Broadway’s Once on This Island, fuse ancestral stories and contemporary culture in a way that celebrates, challenges and inspires.

Brown is a four-time recipient of the Princess Grace Award, a Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, winner of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, and TED Fellow, among other accolades. In addition, her work has been commissioned by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and others.

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This program is supported in part by:

The presentation of Camille A. Brown * Dancers’ ink was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.