Revisit Camille A. Brown’s ink: a celebration of African American social dance.
Were you there? Direct from NYC, award winning dancer and choreographer Camille A. Brown presents ink, a celebration of African-American dance. The performance explores the rituals, gestural vocabulary, and traditions ingrained within the lineage of the African Diaspora.
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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 (along with “Mr. TOL E. RAncE”- 2012, “BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play” – 2015). Together, 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 super powers and finding liberation.
When: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 8 PM – 10 PM
Schedule:
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM - Virtual performance
9:00 PM - 9:30 PM - Live virtual Q&A with the artists
Image Credit: NYUAD Arts Center
When
03 June, 20:00–22:00.
Age
0+
Price
Free
Telephone number
+971 2 628 4000
Links
Address
Abu DhabiOnline