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FRESHWATER (2008)

Choreography & Performance Makeda Thomas
Lighting Design & Technical Direction James Clotfelter, Stephen Arnold
Sound Design  Keshav Singh
Costume Design  Robert Young/THE CLOTH

Vocals Attillah Springer, Ozy Majiq
With text from "The Whirlwind" by Delano Abdul Malik de Coteau


U.S. Premiere - 15 May 2009    Broadway Performance Hall - Seattle, WA
World Premiere - October 2006    CCA7, Port of Spain, Trinidad



 
Photos by Agueda Sanfiz Sancho
FILMS

Costa Del Alma - a collaboration with Panu Kari
Featuring "Om Mani Padme Hung" by Yungchen Lhamo





Photograph by Mariamma Kambon. See PHOTOS.



'Costa Del Alma' published at SmallAxe, a platform for criticism primarily concerned with thinking in and through the regional/diasporic Caribbean. 12/08

Ramgoolie Trace - collaboration with Elspeth Duncan
Featuring "Jah No Dead" by Burning Spear and folk song performed by Christiana George

'FreshWater' was made possible, in part, with a commission from Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas and the Distinguished Patronage of the United States Embassy in Trinidad & Tobago. The international tour of 'FreshWater' was made possible with funding from USArtists International, a program of Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding.

Thanks to: Forces of Nature Dance Company, Thomas DeFrantz, Alastair Bird, Jo Anna Norris, Svenn Grant, Shyamal Chandrathsingh, Mark Thavenot, and Three Canal for their contribution to this project.