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PERFORMANCES, WORKSHOPS & EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Talk with Trinidad's independent contemporary choreographers
date TBD
Artist Talk featuring Makeda Thomas, Dave Williams, and Sonja Dumas. The artists talk about
their work and processes. With collaborators, video, and sharing of
notes. Light refreshments will be served.
Salon #2: Trinidad Masculinities and Femininities
with Gabrielle
Hosein
date TBD
Gabrielle Hosein is a lecturer at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University
of the West Indies. Dr. Hosein has researched Caribbean gender
identities for over 10 years. She has been active in the Caribbean
youth and feminist movements since 2002, is a member of the Rapso
community and the Ten Sisters Poetry Movement. Her poetry is featured
on three locally-produced albums and Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voices for a New Generation (Zed Press). Watch If I Were Prime Minister About the Salon Series :
An
evening of dinner with a focus on local ingredients and international,
interdisciplinary conversation. Serves as a forum for open and
in-depth discourse on contemporary issues in dance and performance. The
salon is organized around specific themes around the artist, methods,
and pedagogies of contemporary dance and performance in the Caribbean.
Open to Artists in Residence and Invited Guests.
MARCH 2010
Dancemaking/Choreography
18- 20 March for Tobago Division of Culture Monday, 22 March at University of the West Indies, Centre for Creative & Festival Arts
Celia Weiss Bambara, Artist in Residence, will offer a workshop in dancemaking that will engage participants in an African based
contemporary warm-up and technique. The three-hour workshop will
explore a few choreographic devices that critically inquire the base of
a diasporic form, rhythm, or memory. Participants will work on guided
improvisations, creating movement from a specific rhythm, ways to
workshop memory and collaborative phrase making. Participants should
come prepared to move, create and explore.
Talk with Robert Young of THE CLOTH, Race, Identity & Being Here
Wednesday, 17 March
FEBRUARY 2010
Workshops
taught by guest artists, performance studies, and informal dialogues run
alongside Trinidad and Tobago’s Carnival (15 & 16 February 2010)
which embodies the artistry, spirit and energy of this residency.
Positions Carnival at the centre of performance studies and seeks to
engage the local and international community in study and conversation
around:
-how Carnival is understood, performed, discussed and consumed
-how
Carnival performance express unique histories and events, and intersect
with nationalism, transnationalism, and global mobilities
-how
class-based understandings of masculinity and femininity are linked to
the constitution of a Trinidadian nation, and how this is played out in
contemporary Carnival performance
-how the local context of power and meaning influence the ways in which residents think of their experience
Performance Study: Kalinda/Stickfight Competition Wednesday, 3 February at 6PM
Viey La Cou: Exploration of Traditional Carnival Characters Sunday, 7 February at 12PM
Performance Study: Re-Enactment of the Canboulay Riots Friday, 12 February at 5AM
Women & Resistance in Canboulay Attillah Springer/IDAKEDA Saturday, 13 February at 3PM
Performance Study: Jouvay Sunday, 14 February at 2AM
Performance Study: Blue Devils of Paramin Monday, 15 February at 1PM
Performance Study: Carnival Tuesday Mas
Myth, Mas & Movement Makeda Thomas/Roots & Wings Movement! Tuesday, 16 February at 7PM
JANUARY 2010
Open House
Friday, 29 January from 5-6pm
at The Republic of Sydenham, Port of Spain
Artist in Residence, Brittany Williams, rehearses a new solo work tentatively titled, "We were born to Suffer, Hung before Birth, Poverty has taught me otherwise" and invites those interested to observe the creation of the work in progress. Light refreshments will be served.
| "This
choreography surrounds lynching in the modern day context - the
education system, government, political lynching, racism, the lynching
of art and culture. This piece is about my personal struggle and pain
to get out of a society that accepts poverty, failure and destruction
freely." |
Modern Dance Class with Metamorphosis Dance Company
Saturday, 23 January from 2pm - 3:15pm
Artist
in Residence, Brittany Williams teaches a technique class in Modern
Dance at the Caribbean School of Dancing in Port of Spain. Learn more
about Metamorphosis here.Brittany Williams (USA) is pursuing a BA in Dance at Miami Dade College. 2010 Dance & Performance Institute Session I
scholarship artist in residence. Brittany attended the 2009 American Dance Festival where
she studied with Makeda Thomas, Sherone Price and Mark Dendy. She has
also studied traditional Afro-Caribbean folkloric dance from Cuba,
Haiti and Puerto Rico with Babá Richard González, modern dance Gerri
Houlihan, Masazumi Chaya (Alvin Ailey School of Dance), Mohammad De
Acosta and Clyde Morgan among others. Her performance experiments have
included "Breathe On Me", "Party Blues" and "All Night Long". In
November 2008, Brittany accepted an international invitation to perform
and teach at EIDAN, Encontro Internacional De Dança Negra in Salvador do Bahia, Brazil.
INTERNATIONAL DANCE ARTISTES COMING TO TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
18 January 2010 - Trinidad & Tobago NewsdayRead the article here at Trinidad & Tobago's Newsday
Ananya ChatterjeaPhoto by V. Paul Virtucio
Dinner at The Republic
Sunday, 17 January at 6PM
at The Republic of Sydenham, Port of Spain
Meet 2010 Dance & Performance Institute Artists in Residence. Food and drinks will be served.
Project: "Moko"
by Tasha Connolly
Thursday, 14 January 2010
The Moko arrived in Trinidad by “walking all the way across the
Atlantic Ocean from the West coast of Africa, laden with many, many
centuries of experience, and, in spite of all inhuman attacks and
encounters, yet still walks tall, tall, tall." (John Cupid, Caribbean
Beat) Artist in Residence, Tasha Connolly begins a weblog on her research on the moko jumbie tradition. In
2007, Tasha began apprenticing with Dragon de Souza at Keylemanjahro
School of Arts & Culture in Cocorite, Trinidad. Join Tasha as she
shares her continued study and research of the moko jumbie dance as
part of her 2010 Dance & Performance Institute Residency. http://mokoinfo.blogspot.com
| Tasha Connolly
(USA), pursuing a BA in Health Arts & Sciences at Goddard College; 2010 Dance & Performance Institute Session I scholarship
artist in residence. Co-created and performed “Sonic Fire: Into the
Woods,” (2009) a fire
circus show in Collinsville, Connecticut and wrote, directed and
performed in “Tommy and Bobby’s Election Extravaganza,” (2008) a street
theatre piece that explored McCain’s and Obama’s proposed energy
policies from the perspective of 8-year-old boys. She has also performed in
“Bitter Cassava,” a play by Lester Efebo Wilkinson at The University of
the West Indies and in “The Line,” a party
and performance art exhibition at Alice Yard in Port of Spain, |
Talk with Burton Sankeralli, author of Of Obeah and Modernity
Monday, 11 January 2010 at 7pm
at The Republic of Sydenham, Port of Spain
Performance: "Kenbe, Amour, Colére, Folie: Improvisations for Love"by Celia Weiss Bambara
Saturday, 9 January 2010 at 9pm
at The Republic of Sydenham, Port of Spain
Inter-culturalism is a fraught space in which the micro-cosm of a romantic relationship enacts the very questions of our times. Who are we
allowed to love? How do we reconcile our differences? Who decides which
bodies can love? Who decides which bodies can speak differently about
love? Drawing upon Haitian novelist, Marie Chauvet’s once-banned
novel, Amour, Colére, Folie to express the ways in which the anxiety
of political and economic unrest are navigated by different female
voices, this work strives to express how one can hold on tight, to
hopes, dreams and liberty as well as love across cultures.Celia Weiss Bambara (USA) - Co-artistic director of the CCBdance Project; Ph.D Dance History and Theory/Critical Dance Studies, University of California – Riverside, MA Dance, University of California – Los Angeles. CCBdance Project is a African based contemporary dance company formed in 2006 with Burkina Faso born, Christian Bambara. Celia has danced for JAKA in Port-au-Prince and Martin Dancers in Los Angeles among others. Between the late 90’s and 2003 Celia worked with artists in Port-au-Prince on projects that combined Haitian, modern/contemporary, and other African diasporic dance forms. Her choreography and the work of the CCBdance Project have also been shown in Los Angeles, Chicago, Iowa, Michigan, Cuba, and Jamaica. Celia has collaborated with Djenane St. Juste, Andrea Ogundele, Florencia Pierre, Elizabeth Chin, and Joseph Velcime. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois, Chicago and and teaches at Rast Ballet. She is thrilled to work this year with Rachel Thorne Germond Dance.
Go to Forum for Culture, Meaning and Movement Research, co-instigated by Meida Teresa McNeal and Celia Weiss Bambara
- a weekly blog; monthly discussion group stemming from issues in
African diasporic dance and other expressive forms of cultural
production; and movement research series.
Salon #1: Pedagogy
Thursday, 7 January 2010 at 7pm
at The Republic of Sydenham, Port of Spain
With Makeda Thomas, Celia Weiss Bambara (Artist in Residence), Tasha
Connolly (Artist in Residence), Sonja Dumas (Artistic Director and
Choreographer of CONTINUUM), Nicole Wesley (Associate Professor,
Academy for the Performing Arts, The University of Trinidad &
Tobago), and Attillah Springer (IDAKEDA)
About the Salon Series:
An evening of dinner with a focus on local ingredients and international, interdisciplinary conversation. Serves as a forum for open and in-depth discourse on contemporary issues in dance and performance. The salon is organized around specific themes around the artist, methods, and pedagogies of contemporary dance and performance in the Caribbean. Open to Artists in Residence and Invited Guests.
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THE INSTITUTE...
...offers artists residencies in contemporary
and traditional dance and performance studies in Trinidad & Tobago in
an open, comfortable environment with many opportunities for
interaction, exchange and learning. The goal of the residency is to provide a space where professional dance artists from the Caribbean
can engage in creation, conversation and performance with dance and
performing artists from around the world. Now accepting applications for
Sessions 3 & 4: July - December 2010
Application due: 1 April 2010
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ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
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