"Sweat Yuh Culture!” Feteness founder and instructor Allie Guilbaud hollers on a recent Tuesday night in the studio of Tip Tap Toe Dance Studio in Elmont. "Sweat Yuh Culture!” the 20 attendees in bike ...
Incorporating the textures of Caribbean performance with African and American sensibilities, Cynthia Oliver’s COCo Dance Theatre performs its current evening-length work at this summer’s Bates Dance ...
The people of Trinidad live and breathe Carnival. A time of celebration, Carnival combines music and dance with elaborate costumes to produce a spectacle of extravagance and energy. People fill the ...
A legend in Trinidad, Calypso Rose closed out globalFEST with the sensuous, vintage dance music of her Caribbean home. Having recorded her early hits in the mid-'60s, Rose is a venerable diva of an ...
For generations of her core Caribbean fans, Calypso Rose has been a long-time champion of a woman’s right to let loose, party and, most importantly, do so free from the leering gaze and pawing hands ...
Born in the Bronx, raised in the Virgin Islands, choreographer Cynthia Oliver straddles several worlds — American, Caribbean, African — in her work. In her new piece “Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured ...