INTERNATIONAL DANCE CONFERENCE 2014 ERROL BARROW CENTRE FOR CREATIVE IMAGINATION THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES CAVE HILL CAMPUS, BARBADOS WEST INDIES MARCH 6 to10 Artistic Director: Neri Torres Curator: John Hunte Technical Director: Paula Mascoll Festival Producer: De Carla Applewhaite
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International Dance Conference Schedule………………………………………………………………………....3 List of Movement Workshops……………………………………………………………………………………………..6 List of Panelists.…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……..7 List of Performances………………………………………………………………………………………………..………….9 Panels…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………9 Registration Fees ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..9
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INTERNATIONAL DANCE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Date: Thursday 6th March, 2014 6:00pm Transformational Dance Workshop Location: National Cultural Foundation; West Terrace, St. James, BB23018, Barbados 7:20pm Facilitator: Christina Sears- Etter 7:00pm 8:10pm
Video Screening : African Dance: Sand, Drum and Shostakovich - Directors: Ken Glazebrook and Alla Kovgan Location: Cinemateque
7:30pm 9:20pm
Haitian dance Facilitator: Rosella Molinu
Date: Friday 7th March, 2014 8:00am Registration Location: EBCCI 12:00pm 9:00am Welcome/Aperture (Breakfast, Symposium committee speaks, drummers and short dance). Location: EBCCI Theatre Lobby 10:00am PANEL SCHEDULE Location: EBCCI Cinemateque 10:00am 10:45 am
Panel I: Sustainability & Agency Panelists: Matt Carney, Caitlin Snelson & John Hunte.
11:00am 11:45pm
Panel II: Traditional dance Panelists: Rosella Molinu & Nai-Whedai Sheriff
12:00pm 12:45pm LUNCH 1:30pm 2:15pm
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Panel III: Teaching & Education Panelists: Rainy Demerson, Sally Crawford & Kathryn Austin
Panel IV: Caribbean Diaspora Panelists: Nzinga Metzger, Ian Douglas & Yolanda Knights
2:30pm 3:15pm
Panel V: Fusion Approaches Panelists: Niurca Marques, Yvonne Goodridge & Neri Torres
3:30pm 4:15pm
Dance Workshop - ‘Wukkin up’ Location: EBCCI Dance Studio Facilitator: John Hunte
4:30pm 5:15pm
Panel VI: Gender & Environment Panelists: Danielle Harris, Lisa Sandlos & Jorge Morejon
5:30pm 6:30pm DINNER
Key note speaker: Yvonne Daniel
8:00pm 9:30pm
Local Dance Companies Performance –Traditional Afro-Caribbean Dance
9:30pm 10:30pm
Field Trip Location: Oistins
Featuring: UWI St. Augustine Dance Company, Dancing Africa, Pinelands Creative Workshop, Israel Lovell Foundation, Haynesville Youth Club and Danse National Afrique, Pearls Dance Academy
Date: Saturday 8th March, 2014 8:00am Registration 12:00pm DANCE WORKSHOPS: EBCCI Dance Studio/Rehearsal Studio 9:00am 10:00am
Facilitator: Rainy Demerson Afro-Brazilian
10:10am 11:10am
Facilitator: Nai-Whedai Sheriff Workshop: J’ouvert
11:20am 12:20pm
Facilitator: Neri Torres Workshop: Afro-Cuban Orisha dances: regaining black identity
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1:00pm 2:00pm
Facilitator: Lisa Sandlos Workshop: Creating Movement Choirs (Laban)
2:10pm 3:10pm
Facilitator: Ian Douglas Workshop: The Bajan Body
3:20pm 4:20pm
Facilitator: Matt Carney Workshop: California Flow Modern Dance
4:30pm 5:30pm
Facilitator: John Hunt Workshop: Barbadian dances: Landship
DINNER 7:00pm 8:30pm
GALA PERFORMANCE
8:30pm 9:30pm
Closing Party After Dance Dance Party Location: EBCCI Theatre Lobby
10:00pm
Field Trip: St. Lawrence Gap
Featuring: Christina Sears-Etter, Rainy Demerson, Matt Carney, Hazel Franco, UWI-EBCCI students, BCC, Israel Lovell Foundation, Adrenaline, Multifarious, Of Another Nature, Reactive and Street Dance, Matt Carney, Adrenaline
Sunday, March 9th, 2014
Date: 6:00pm
FINALE PERFORMANCE Location: EBCCI Theatre Featuring: Praise Academy, Pearl An Dance Academy, Barefoot Project and Dancing Africa
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MOVEMENT WORKSHOPS (Cont.)
NAME
Lisa Sandlos, MA
TOPIC
Creating Movement Choirs (Laban)
University/Affiliation
PhD Candidate, York University, Canada
Nai-Whedai Sheriff
J’ouvert
Graduate Student, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Rainy Demerson, MA
Dances of Brazil: Legacy of Resistance
El Paso Community College, El Paso, Texas
Christina Sears-Etter, MFA
Somatics: Exploring the Mind-Body Connection
Artistic Director, People Dancing , Eastern Michigan University, USA
Neri Torres, MFA
Afro-Cuban Orisha dances: regaining black identity
University of the West Indies, Barbados
John Hunte
Wukkin’ up, Landship
PhD Candidate, UWI/ National Cultural Foundation, Barbados
Rosella Molinu, BA
Haitian dance
Independent Artist, Dance & Drum for Tots, New York City
Ian Douglas
The Bajan Body
Independent Choreographer – No affiliation
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TOPIC
University/Affliation
Lisa Sandlos Agency and Social Transformation through Bodies in Motion: Why dance is an important tool for the advancement of feminism and gender equality
PhD Candidate, York University
Kathryn Austin
Bound Flow: Barriers to Dance Education in the K-12 Environment
Centre of Dance & the Performing Arts, Florida
Sally Crawford
Future Improvisations: New Perspectives on Implementing Tap Dance Studies into Dance Curriculums
PhD Candidate, De Montfort University, England
Nai-Whedai Sheriff
J'ouvert Speaks to the Present: Chippin' Down the Road as the Story Unfolds
Independent Choreographer, Urban Dance & Company,
Neri Torres
Rainy Demerson, MA
Cultural Impact of immigration in Western cities: New forms of dance sustainability and resistance Teaching Dances of the African Diaspora
Errol Barrow Center for the Creative Imagination, UWI, Barbados Independent Choreographer, Sacred Space Dance Company
Nzinga Metzger, PhD
My Spirit Dares to Dance this Body
Jorge Morejon, PhD
Caribbean Dance: Ecology of Our Sensory UWI, St. Augustine, Environment Trinidad Tobago
Yulanda Knights
Dissolving Aesthetic Difference: The Everything Dancer for the Everything Dance
Director of Dance at the Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts, New York
Laura Donnelly
A Nonviolent Approach to Resistance Using the Alexander Technique
Kansas State University, Kansas
John Hunte
Dancing the National Narratives, Concert Dance in Barbados, a Historical Document
National Cultural Foundation, Barbados
Danielle Harris
Women in Hip-Hop: Commercialization’s Impact on Their Representation in the Media Flamenco Contemporaneo: Dance as
Graduate Student, Hunter College City University of New York Independent
Niurca Marques 7|Page
Florida A&M University
Resistance in a Process of Expansion Yvonne Goodridge, MA
The Dynamics of Movement and the Exchange of Energy: Synergy of Movement in the work of the late Prof. Rex Nettleford
Matt Carney
Communication During Change: Creating Sustainability in the Arts Through a Mixed Strategy Approach
Rosella Mollinu
The Eternal Stream: Haitian Vodun Dance and the dynamic of possession as a survival strategy
Caitlin Snelson
Protecting the Legacy of the Dance Arts: The Language of Copyright and Choreography, Graduate student, Vanderbilt Law School
Ian Douglas
Yvonne Daniel, PhD *Key note speaker
The Bajan body and the Missing Drum Speaks
Choreographer, Miami, Florida Barry University, Miami, Florida
Independent Choreographer and Administrator, San Diego, California
Graduate Student, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tennessee
Independent Choreographer, Barbados Professor Emerita, Smith
Dance Arts and the Future
College, Massachusetts
PERFORMANCES PERSON/GROUP Sandra Lamouche
TITLE Traditional Native American Hoop Dance
University/Affiliation Graduate Student, Trent University, Canada
Rainy Demerson, MA
Perfect Blossom
Artistic Director, Sacred Space Dance Artistic Director, People
Christina Sears, MFA
Of Cedar and Stone
Dancing
Course of Passage
Independent Choreographer, Graduate Student, San Diego
Matt Carney
State University
Barbados Community College Of Another Nature
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EBCCI (students)
Coming apart (Lisa Cummins and Miriam Edghill) His Substance (Christian Gibson)
Street Dance Israel Lowell Foundation
PANELS Sustainability & Agency (I):
Traditional (II):
Matt Carney Caitlin Snelson John Hunte
Rosella Mollinu Sandra Lamouche Nai-Whedai Sheriff
Teaching &Education (III):
Caribbean Diaspora (IV):
Rainy Demerson Sally Crawford Kathryn Austin
Nzinga Metzgtr Ian Douglas Yolanda Knights
Fusion Approaches (V):
Gender & Environment(VI):
Neri Torres Niurca Marques
Daniel Harris Lisa Sandlos Jorge Morejon
Key Note Speaker: Yvonne Daniel
Registration Prices Full Day Pass - $120 (includes Symposium, workshops and closing gala) Single Workshop - $20 Pick 3 - $45 (workshops only) Spectator - $40 (all day) $20 (single workshop) Gala Performance: $25 (General Admission) - $15 (Students and Seniors)
Note: All prices are in US dollars. Payments at the door only (Schedule subject to change)
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