Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Recipient of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award in 2016, four-time Tony Award-nominated director and choreographer Camille A. Brown continues her meteoric rise creating new work on stage, TV, and film as the founder of Camille A. Brown & Dancers. This program featured the world premiere of “I AM,” developed in part through a Pillow Lab residency in 2023. While Brown has often disrupted our understanding of the past, in this new work, she imagines a creative space for cultural liberation—conjuring the various ways that joy lives within Black culture, querying the possibilities of imagination, and boldly investigating the future. Inspired by the “I AM” episode of the HBO series “Lovecraft Country” and the rhythms of the movie “Drumline,” this new work picked up where “ink” (2017) left off by blasting us into a universe where anything is possible. Program: “Turf” (Excerpt from “ink”); choreography: Camille A. Brown in collaboration with the dancers and musicians. “I AM;” choreography: Camille A. Brown in collaboration with the dancers and musicians; music: Juliette Jones, Deah Love, Jaylen Petinaud, Martine Mauro-Wade, Sounds of Blackness, Lil Kim, Jill Scott, Busta Rhymes, Crystal Waters, Method Man. Includes Post-Show Talk with Camille A. Brown and Mora-Amina Parker moderated by Melanie George. This performance was filmed live on August 2, 2024 in the Ted Shawn Theatre at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival. Video by Nel Shelby Productions. Full-length performance films are copyright of Jacob’s Pillow. No part of this video, in whole or in part, may be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, adapted, or otherwise used without prior written authorization from Jacob’s Pillow.