Camille Rennie

Camille Rennie is originally from Somerset, New Jersey and began her professional dance training with PHILADANCO!’s 2nd company while earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance from Temple University. She went on to perform extensively in concert dance, musical theater, and Latin ballroom as a freelance dance artist, and five years later she was selected to join the inaugural Master of Fine Arts cohort of the Mason Gross Dance Department at Rutgers University. For her thesis concert, Camille choreographed and produced the evening-length dance production of Ella’s Trip (2019), and subsequently published an excerpt of her written work in the January 2020 issue of Black Dance Magazine.

She also worked with Tony Award-winners Andre DeShields and Crossroads Theater Company as Assistant Choreographer for their 2018 revival of Ain’t Misbehavin’ at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. She returned to Crossroads the following year as the Choreographer of A Christmas Carol, which ran during the grand opening season of the New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (2019). Camille’s choreography has since been presented by Dance New Jersey, Project for Empty Space (PES), Mana Contemporary, Newark Dances, North to Shore, WestFest Dance, BAAD! Bronx, coLAB Arts, Rutgers University, Drexel University, Drew University, Stockton University, and Raritan Valley Community College, along with many other schools and institutions of dance.

In 2024, she was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship by Mid Atlantic Arts and the New Jersey State Council of the Arts. Camille continues to share her dance works and artistic programming through the Company of Collaborative Artists (CoCA) - a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dance company she established in summer 2021 with a mission to spread love and light internationally through dance arts and creative community. Camille has a passion for empowering artists and servicing all levels of movers as a university department adjunct professor in dance and somatics, an events & retreats curator, and a certified yoga instructor (RYT 200-hour).