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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Noble Douglas celebrates 30 years of dance with TEETH

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The No­ble Dou­glas Dance Co Inc (ND­D­CI) presents its 30th an­niver­sary dance sea­son, Teeth, next week­end.The sea­son will fea­ture "pri­mar­i­ly new works per­formed by a cast of ap­pren­tices, sea­soned com­pa­ny mem­bers and alum­ni," the com­pa­ny said in a press re­lease last week.Ac­claimed dancer and chore­o­g­ra­ph­er No­ble Dou­glas found­ed the com­pa­ny in 1985 "with a vi­sion to use the body for the ex­pres­sion of a Caribbean aes­thet­ic in mod­ern con­tem­po­rary dance."

The com­pa­ny has worked with and con­tin­ues to work with in­ter­na­tion­al­ly based per­form­ers in­clud­ing Jef­frey Carter (Nor­way), David By­er (Nor­way), Richard Lessey (Nor­way), Chris­tel De Souza (UK), Na­tal­ie Rogers (USA), Na­dine Mose (USA/T&T), Pene­lope Kalloo (USA) and Ter­ry Springer (Venezuela).Its 2013 dance sea­son Ve­ci­nos...we are Neigh­bours fea­tured Venezue­lan con­tem­po­rary dance com­pa­ny Fun­daci�n Coreoarte."Over the years, ND­D­CI has al­so cul­ti­vat­ed in­no­v­a­tive and dy­nam­ic col­lab­o­ra­tive projects in­clud­ing Black Bur­lesque (re­vis­it­ed), an eight-year al­liance be­tween ND­D­CI and two in­ter­na­tion­al dance com­pa­nies–post-mod­ernist, Reg­gie Wil­son's, New York-based Fist and Heel Per­for­mance Group and Zim­bab­we's a cap­pel­la group known for its gum­boot and African dance chore­og­ra­phy, Black Um­folosi," the com­pa­ny said.

"This project cul­mi­nat­ed with the 2003 New York pre­miere of Black Bur­lesque (re­vis­it­ed) fol­lowed by its two-and-a-half-month tour of sev­en states in the Unit­ed States. The com­pa­ny fol­lowed this suc­cess­ful in­ter­na­tion­al tour with six per­for­mances in the Trinidad The­atre Work­shop's 2005 pro­duc­tion of Derek Wal­cott's mu­si­cal, Steel."The com­pa­ny has al­so col­lab­o­rat­ed with the Mar­i­onettes Chorale.The com­pa­ny said the 2014 sea­son would in­clude four new works by Dou­glas, Dave Williams, Ar­lene Frank and Kalloo, and a re­mount­ing of De Souza's piece, Man­i­fes­ta­tions.

Teeth runs Oc­to­ber 18�19 at Queen's Hall. Tick­ets are avail­able at Cros­by's Mu­sic Cen­tre, from mem­bers of the ND­D­CI, and from Oc­to­ber 14, at the Queen's Hall box of­fice.


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