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The National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC) of Jamaica will cement its place as the Caribbean’s premier dance company on Novmeber 4 at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto.
This single-night performance will feature standout performances from NDTC’s repertoire, built on dance and shored up by remarkable music, costume and choreography. The Toronto audience will be favoured with a historical master class in dance, part retrospective, part reveal and part ode. This tour de force marks the closing of its stellar 52nd season.
The evening will highlight the much-anticipated *Tribute to Rex*. The late Ralston Milton “Rex” Nettleford, OM, FIJ, OCC, was the company’s co-founder, a public intellectual, an activist and a global citizen who died in 2010. The Toronto gathering will also feature the company’s seminal work, a program to include the *Súlkari* (1980), an elaborate, Yoruba-inspired “dance of exaltation.” This introspective of the ever complicated male-female relationship is a fusion of artistic forms choreographed by Eduardo Rivero-Walker, featuring Marlon Simms, now NDTCs associate artistic director.
*Súlkari* is accompanied by the bold, uber-contemporary ,Urban Fissuregram to include the S ̈elease know or should know who he is?e and choreography.?] *Urban Fissure* (2004), featuring the music of the legendary Bob Marley, Eryka Badu and a Rastaman Chant with Busta Rhymes. In the 2010 work *Minutes and Seconds*, the stealth of choreographers Kerry-Ann Henry and Momo Sanno is a reminder that life, though complicated, demands respect and reflection for the “simple yet powerful things God has created.” And for the company’s devotees, the much lauded Nettleford masterpiece, *Dialogue For Three *(1963)—a true
feminist libretto, and tense tale of three—is a classic tutorial in male struggle and helplessness “in the face of female force.”
Artistic director, visionary and technician artist Barry Moncrieffe says, “The season promises to be a rewarding and uplifting experience for audience members.” Moncrieffe, committed to legacy building, is creatively governed by the company’s core values of “exploration, experimentation, renewal and continuity,” a formula that has made NDTC ” Alvin Ailey’s Diasporic twin and a revolutionary creative force in modern dance.”
We had the opportunity to speak with Camille Hines about this event. During our conversation, Camille talked about:
– Some of her background and the background of the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC)
– How did she get involved in bringing the NDTC to Toronto
– The background on founders of the NDTC, Rex Nettleford and Eddie Thomas
– What makes NDTC performances special
– Some of the journey to get the performance to happen
– The program on November 4, 2014 and some free workshops the NDTC will be doing while they are in Toronto
Tickets are $50-200 and are available at Ticketmaster and the Sony Centre Box Office and other locations (see the image at the top of this post). For more information, please call Jones & Jones Productions at
(905) 452- 1911.
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