Mr. Tol E. Rance Comes To Town

www.camilleabrown.org/the-company

Three years ago, Camille A. Brown made the decision to form her own dance company, Camille A. Brown & Dancers. They are bringing to the 80th Anniversary season of the American Dance Festivaltheir piece, “Mr. Tol E. Rance,” which tackles minstrelsy.

Frank speaks today with Camille A. Brown and Lightsey Darsta writer and critic about the American Dance Festival, dance and the piece Mr. Tol E. Rance. Camille A. Brown and Dancers is performing tonight and tomorrow at 8pm at the Reynolds Industries Theater at Duke University.

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Shawn Wen joined the staff of The State of Things in March 2012 and served as associate producer until February 2014.
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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