Curating Live Arts by Davida Dena Gabriels Jane Hudon Véronique Pronovost Marc

Author:Davida, Dena,Gabriels, Jane,Hudon, Véronique,Pronovost, Marc
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2019-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

A 2013 Creative Capital grantee, MAKEDA THOMAS creates and performs internationally, while living in both New York City & and Port of Spain, Trinidad, where she developed The Dance & Performance Institute, an international community of performance artists, a forum for exchange, and a series of programs on contemporary dance and performance.

NOTES

I thank my son, Shiloh, for his grace and patience while I worked on this chapter; all of the artists of the Dance and Performance Institute of Trinidad and Tobago, through whom this work has been possible; and Jane Gabriels for the opportunity to contribute.

1. From Michelle Gibson’s workshop description: “Second Line Aesthetic” involves improvised movement, brass music, and the embrace of communal ritual. We examine how specific movements like bucking, musical instrumentation like brass band compositions, and the improvisations of community members are central aspects of Second Line Aesthetic. We will move from Africa, through the Caribbean and into Congo Square through an exploration of New Orleans dance history and dance with live musicians (Dance and Performance Institute 2014).

2. COCO (Contemporary Choreographers Collective) Dance Festival was founded in 2008 by four choreographers—Dave Williams, Sonja Dumas, Nancy Herrera, and Nicole Wesley.

3. American Indian. More appropriately called the Kalinago in Trinidad.

4. From an artist talk by Mojica, programmed as part of Santee Smith’s Artist Residency, hosted partnership with The Philosophical Society of Trinidad and Tobago at Studio 66 in Barataria, Port of Spain.

5. Chitra Vairavan, Sherie Apungu, Renee Copeland, Alex Eady, Brittany Radke, Sarah Beck-Esmy, Lela Pierce, Alessandra Williams (guest), Hui Wilcox, and Orlando Hunter.

6. Petroleum Company of Trinidad and Tobago Limited is the state-owned oil company.

7. On October 2009, the piece was performed for the first iteration of the COCO Dance Festival at Queens Hall. In the New Waves! 2013 performance of Strange Tale of an Island Shade held 31 July at the Academy for Performing Arts in Port of Spain, Dumas presented a twenty-minute version of the work.

8. Michael Mortley, Mark Eastman, Ricarrdo Valentine, Robert Young, and Orlando Hunter.

9. Jouvay Process for Dancers comes out of playwright Tony Hall’s Jouvay Process Popular Theatre, an interventionist performance/production model for seeing art works happen. It is a framework for personal or group development, or for training artists to deepen their craft, and their consciousness, in direct relation to everything around them.

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