Theatre and Dance

Culture, Theatre and Dance, The Bahamas

Junkanoo rush

In 2004, a Bahamian theatre group, the Dust Track Theatre Company, took to the streets of downtown Nassau during the annual Junkanoo...

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Music, Theatre and Dance, Trinidad and Tobago

Tonight at the Diamond: David Rudder & Tony Hall’s Brand New Lucky Diamond Horseshoe Club

This is a tale ’bout the other side of The other side of town The kinda place where decent people look left, sneer Then spit on the...

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Culture, Theatre and Dance, Festivals and Events, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Rawle Gibbons: breaking down the Ivory Tower

“The energies of the mas, of steelband, of Hosay, these energies have all been politicised, because they have all been sites of...

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Culture, Theatre and Dance, Arts, Jamaica

Jamaica’s pantomime: upstaging tradition

Deck the halls with red poinsettias. Serve up sorrel, fruitcake, and heaping slices of ham. Put on your best Sunday clothes and make a trip...

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Theatre and Dance, People, Jamaica

Rex Nettleford: “Running a university is like running a dance company”

At the risk of romanticising a little, I do treasure very much the fact of my growing up in rural Jamaica. I was born in Falmouth,...

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Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom, Trinidad and Tobago

Theatre Buzz: Dragged on Stage

Six drag queens are cavorting on the stage of London’s Theatre Royal, manipulating the macho boasts of calypso lyrics to better suit...

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Culture, Theatre and Dance

Colly’s follies

When did you last meet a real Renaissance man, or woman? I mean someone who can do absolutely everything without seeming to try very hard....

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Community, Culture, Theatre and Dance, People

Rex Nettleford on Keeping “Caribbeanness” Alive In Dance

The question is often asked: how does a dance company in the languorous Caribbean survive four decades without a single one of its...

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