Twisting Rhodes | On this day
It grieves me to say this about my alma mater, but Oxford University has a long tradition of accepting money from bad people. Both the...
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,...
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...
Book Reviews – July/August 2010
Lord of the dance Judy Raymond “Writing about jazz,” Thelonious Monk once said, “is like dancing about architecture.” Writing about...
Rex Nettleford: a king among men
An ordinary man of extraordinary accomplishments – that was Rex Nettleford. An extraordinary man of ordinary life and circumstances –...
Rex Nettleford: A Voice From the Caribbean
In a major new book of essays, Inward Stretch Outward Reach: A Voice From the Caribbean, the Jamaican writer and artist Rex Nettleford...
