Camille A. Brown is the choreographer for the Broadway production of Ntozake Shange’s “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.”
There are two Tony Award nominations, one for best direction of a play, and another for best choreography, not to mention Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for direction and choreography and the Drama League Award nomination for outstanding direction. Her work embodies the essence of storytelling, making her a dance griot of the African American/African diasporic experience. And, nowhere is that more evident than in Shange’s choreopoem.
AmNews: Congratulations on the amazing Tony Award nominations for your historic dual role with “for colored girls.” Talk to us about what this production of Ntozake’s groundbreaking play means to you. CB: It means that movement and poetry co-exist. So often we get into situations where people feel like movement is too distracting, or movement is just about steps, but here Ntozake clearly defines movement as storytelling and that’s all that I am and so to be able to have that opportunity on this platform and today and have seven Black women represent the full spectrum of who we are, not just the pain but also the joy and the Black Girl Magic is so important.
AmNews: You’ve always incorporated vernacular or social dance movements into your productions. I saw traces of the hambone, salsa, marenge and kids games in “for colored girls.” They all make it so relatable. CB: I told the women that this play is about empowerment and I told them I want us to end on a high note. And, in the beginning I told them I don’t want us to be seen as victims. When we look at the poem “dark phrases” and she talks about “Are we crazy? Are we ghouls?” You know, my response is ‘Yes I feel that,” also, “We were not born that way. We were not born confused. We were born magical and it’s the world that made us question who we were.
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