Cabd

In 2023, Cabd toured brown's repertory work in 9 performances for audiences totaling 5,303 across 5 venues: jacob's pillow, becket, ma; carver center, san antonio, tx; meany center for the performing arts, seattle, wa; the music hall, portsmouth, nh; and newmark theater, presented by white bird, portland, or. This touring season employed 15 dancers, 7 musicians, and a 10-person production team-the majority of whom are artists and collaborators of color. In 2023, the company began to develop a new work titled i am, exploring themes of black joy. Brown developed the work for 12 dancers and 4 musicians through residencies at jacob's pillow (1/9-19), kaatsbaan cultural park (5/22-27), and baryshnikov arts center (12/4-8). Company dancers set Cabd work, city of rain, on juilliard dance students, who gave 5 performances at the juilliard school's peter jay sharp theater (3/22-25); new second line on students at point park university, in pittsburgh, for 4 performances (4/19-22), and on collage dance company in memphis, Tennessee for their 2023-2024 season. Cabd partnered with 25 community organizations including arts and social service organizations, and public schools in nyc and 3 national partners to provide 701 free in-person and virtual every body move (ebm) workshops for 1,941 bipoc youth and created a mixed-gender curriculum. Cabd provided 16 mentorships for emerging bipoc artists & 3 free virtual artist/scholar lectures that served 644 viewers. Principal ebm teaching artist ethel calhoun also became Cabd's first full-time ebm teaching artist. Cabd also hired dalmar nation, a new teaching artist in january 2023.