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Ronald K. Brown
Contemporary
Biography:
Ronald K. Brown, raised in Brooklyn, NY, founded EVIDENCE, A Dance Company in 1985. He has worked with Mary Anthony Dance Theater, Jennifer Muller/The Works, as well as other choreographers and artists. Brown has set works on Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ailey II, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Jennifer Muller/The Works, Jeune Ballet d’Afrique Noire, Ko-Thi Dance Company, Philadanco, Muntu Dance Theater of Chicago, Ballet Hispánico, TU Dance, and Malpaso Dance Company.
He has collaborated with such artists as composer/designer
Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya, the late writer Craig G. Harris, director
Ernie McClintock’s Jazz Actors Theater, choreographers Patricia
Hoffbauer and Rokiya Kone, and composers Jason Moran, Arturo
O'Farrill, Meshell Ndegeocello, Robert Een, Oliver Lake,
Bernadette Speech, David Simons,, and Don Meissner
Brown is the recipient of the 2020 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award.
His other awards and recognitions include theAUDELCO Award for
his choreography in Regina Taylor’s award-winning play Crowns,
received two Black Theater Alliance Awards, and a Fred & Adele
Astaire Award for Outstanding Choreography in the Tony Award
winning Broadway and national touring production of The
Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, adapted by Suzan Lori Parks,
arrangement by Diedre Murray and directed by Diane Paulus.
Brown was named Def Dance Jam Workshop 2000 Mentor of the
Year and has received; the Doris Duke Artist Award, NYC City
Center Fellowship, Scripps/ADF Award, John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
Choreographers Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship, United States Artists Fellowship,
a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award, Dance
Magazine Award, and The Ailey Apex Award.
Brown is Co-Artistic Director of RestorationART Youth Arts
Academy Pre-Professional Training Program / Restoration Dance
Youth Ensemble, and a member of Stage Directors &
Choreographers Society
For more
information,
visit the Evidence
Website.