How, In 2016, Do You Choreograph A 1940 ‘Negro Fantasy’?

Cabin in the Sky is getting revived this summer by New York’s influential Encores! series for the sake of its score by Vernon Duke. With no record of the original choreography (partly) by Balanchine, how is Camille A. Brown making dances for the show? By looking to the work of the original co-star and co-choreographer, the pioneering Katherine Dunham.