Choreographer

Ronald K. Brown

American choreographer

Born 1966 · Bedford–StuyvesantUnited States14 works

Ronald K. Brown is an American choreographer, born in 1966 in Bedford–Stuyvesant. This page lists 14 works credited to Brown as choreographer, including For You, Better Days and Incidents.

Biography

Ronald K. Brown is a dancer and choreographer, who founded the dance company Evidence in New York in 1985. Brown's work incorporates modern dance, Senegalese Sabar and other West African movement vocabularies, Afro-Caribbean dance, and contemporary urban dance from around the world. He has choreographed numerous works for his own company, as well as for Philadanco, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, the Maimouna Keita West African Dance Company, and many others. Brown has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Bessie Award, a Black Theater Alliance Award, and an Audelco Award for the choreography of Regina Taylor's musical Crowns. He has also been a guest artist at The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts. He studied dance with Mary Anthony.

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Works choreographed by Ronald K. Brown

TitleTypePremiere
25th anniversary of Evidence, a Dance Companydance performance—
Better Dayschoreographic work1998
Dancing Spiritchoreographic work2009
Evidence, a Dance Companydance performance—
Evidence, a Dance Companydance performance—
For Youchoreographic work2003
Four Cornerschoreographic work2013
Gracechoreographic work1999
Ifeː My Heartchoreographic work2005
Incidentschoreographic work1998
Lessons: Exotica/ To Harm the Dangerouschoreographic work1995
Order My Stepschoreographic work2005
The Callchoreographic work2018
Torchchoreographic work2013

Contemporaries

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