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Ronald K. Brown is the artistic director and choreographer of Evidence, A Dance Company the company blends traditional African dance with contemporary choreography and spoken word providing a unique view of human struggles, tragedies, and triumphs.

Ronald K. Brown was born on July 18, 1966 in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, Brown founded the New York-based company at the age of nineteen in 1985. “I hope that when people see the work their spirits are lifted. I am interested in sharing perspectives through modern dance, theater, and kinetic storytelling. I want my work to be evidence of these perspectives,” says Brown.

Brown has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Choreography, a National Endowment for the Arts Choreographers’ Fellowship, a New York Dance and Performance Award (“Bessie”), a Black Theatre Alliance Award, the American Dance Festival Humphrey/Weidman/Limon Award, and fellowships from the Edward and Sally Van Lier fund. Brown was named the 2000 Def Dance Jam Workshop Mentor of the year. In 2003 Brown received an AUDELCO (Black Theatre Award) for his choreography for “Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats”, originally produced by the McCarter Theatre and shown off-Broadway in 2003. In 2006 he received a United States Artists Rose Fellowship. The company has performed in prestigious venues, both nationally and internationally including Cuba, Brazil, Greece, Korea, Hungary, and Senegal.