Step Sequence from "Fire Shut Up in My Bones"

Christian Paris Blue (BFA ’20) danced in the historic production of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” for the Metropolitan Opera this past fall.

The production was the first-ever Black directed main stage performance by choreographer Camille A. Brown and the first performance of an opera by a Black composer, Terence Blanchard, an adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s memoir.

“The thought of all of the Black and Brown people who got to see a piece of themselves on that stage, whether in the theatre or on the screen, gives me chills,” Blue wrote in an Instagram post.

“REPRESENTATION MATTERS! Seeing other people who look like you get the opportunity to express themselves MATTERS! This show was so much bigger than any one person’s story. It was all of our stories. It was all of us.”

BEST DANCE OF 2021 // The New York Times (12.22.21):

“This year, the choreographer Camille A. Brown stopped an opera in its tracks. In Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” which she directed with James Robinson, Brown brought social dance to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House in Oct. with a step number that was stunning in multiple ways: visually, sonically and historically. By including this form of percussive dance, Brown not only put a step dance inside of an opera, she honored her ancestors. (Read our review of “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.”)“

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