Ringplay on Feb 03 2010 | Filed under: Annoucements, R.I.P.
Jamaica lost one of its most revered cultural figures last night when Professor Rex Nettleford, vice-chancellor emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and founder of the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), died, just hours before he would have celebrated his 77th birthday.
Nettleford passed away at George Washington Hospital in Washington, DC, one [...]
Nico on Sep 21 2008 | Filed under: General Theatre, Productions
The NDTC was in town this weekend.
I was supposed to post the flyer but never did. Things are winding down for at work and life intervened.
Didn’t stop us from attending, however!
Some photographs, courtesy of Peter Ramsay:
Check back for a full review.
Nico on Sep 06 2008 | Filed under: CARIFESTA, Productions, Ringplay Productions
When I attended the meeting of the Regional Cultural Committee in Georgetown in April, Guyana’s CARIFESTA Secretariat promised us that each segment of every contingent would perform four times in Guyana — twice in Georgetown and twice outside the city. The regional Directors of Culture (who comprise the RCC) were not surprisingly sceptical. [...]
Nico on Sep 03 2008 | Filed under: CARIFESTA, General Theatre, Productions, Ringplay Productions
The Children’s Teeth was featured at CARIFESTA X, and toured Guyana, set and all. The experience was invaluable — we performed in spaces we would not have chosen for ourselves, despite the existence of at least two enviable national Guyanese performance spaces, the like of which only our hotels provide in The Bahamas. [...]
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