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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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Table of Contents Page

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 -

7:20pm

7:00pm -

8:10pm

Transformational Dance Workshop Location: National Cultural Foundation; West Terrace, St. James, BB23018, Barbados Facilitator: Christina Sears- Etter 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 -

12:00pm

Registration Location: EBCCI

9:00am

- 10:00am

Welcome/Aperture (Breakfast, Symposium committee speaks, drummers and short dance). Location: EBCCI Theatre Lobby

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

Panel III: Teaching & Education Panelists: Rainy Demerson, Sally Crawford & Kathryn Austin

LUNCH

1:30pm -

2:15pm

Panel IV: Caribbean Diaspora Panelists: Nzinga Metzger, Ian Douglas & Yolanda Knights

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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

Key note speaker: Yvonne Daniel

DINNER

8:00pm

- 9:30pm

Local Dance Companies Performance –Traditional Afro-Caribbean Dance Featuring: UWI St. Augustine Dance Company, Dancing Africa, Pinelands Creative Workshop, Israel Lovell Foundation, Haynesville Youth Club and Danse National Afrique, Pearls Dance Academy

9:30pm

- 10:30pm

Field Trip Location: Oistins

Date: Saturday 8th March, 2014

8:00am

- 12:00pm

Registration

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

LUNCH

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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 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

8:30pm

- 9:30pm

Closing Party After Dance Dance Party Location: EBCCI Theatre Lobby

10:00pm

Field Trip: St. Lawrence Gap

Date:

Sunday, March 9th, 2014

6:00pm FINALE PERFORMANCE Location: EBCCI Theatre Featuring: Praise Academy, Pearl An Dance Academy, Barefoot Project and Dancing Africa

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PANELISTS NAME TOPIC University/Affliation

MOVEMENT WORKSHOPS (Cont.)

NAME TOPIC University/Affiliation

Lisa Sandlos, MA

Creating Movement Choirs (Laban)

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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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 Cultural Impact of immigration in Western cities: New forms of dance sustainability and resistance

Errol Barrow Center for the Creative Imagination, UWI, Barbados

Rainy Demerson, MA Teaching Dances of the African Diaspora

Independent Choreographer, Sacred Space Dance Company

Nzinga Metzger, PhD My Spirit Dares to Dance this Body

Florida A&M University

Jorge Morejon, PhD Caribbean Dance: Ecology of Our Sensory Environment

UWI, St. Augustine, 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

Graduate Student, Hunter College City University of New York

Niurca Marques Flamenco Contemporaneo: Dance as Independent

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Resistance in a Process of Expansion

Choreographer, Miami, Florida

Yvonne Goodridge, MA

The Dynamics of Movement and the Exchange of Energy: Synergy of Movement in the work of the late Prof. Rex Nettleford

Barry University, Miami, Florida

Matt Carney Communication During Change: Creating Sustainability in the Arts Through a Mixed Strategy Approach

Independent Choreographer and Administrator, San Diego, California

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

Graduate Student, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, Tennessee

Ian Douglas The Bajan body and the Missing Drum Speaks

Independent Choreographer, Barbados

Yvonne Daniel, PhD *Key note speaker

Dance Arts and the Future

Professor Emerita, Smith College, Massachusetts

PERFORMANCES PERSON/GROUP TITLE University/Affiliation

Sandra Lamouche Traditional Native American Hoop Dance

Graduate Student, Trent University, Canada

Rainy Demerson, MA Perfect Blossom Artistic Director, Sacred Space Dance

Christina Sears, MFA

Of Cedar and Stone

Artistic Director, People Dancing

Matt Carney

Course of Passage

Independent Choreographer, Graduate Student, San Diego 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 Rosella Mollinu Caitlin Snelson Sandra Lamouche John Hunte Nai-Whedai Sheriff

Teaching &Education (III): Caribbean Diaspora (IV): Rainy Demerson Nzinga Metzgtr Sally Crawford Ian Douglas Kathryn Austin Yolanda Knights

Fusion Approaches (V): Gender & Environment(VI): Neri Torres Daniel Harris Niurca Marques 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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