2023
Festival Workshops
Workshops, master classes, etc. will be held at various venues, including the National Academy for the Performing Arts and the University of Trinidad and Tobago (Academy for the Performing Arts campus).
Schedule is subject to change.
Workshop Schedule
A k u z u r u
Trinidad & Tobago
Panel Discussion:
The Colour of Transformation
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Wednesday, Nov. 1 6-7pm FREE
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Art Futures in the Environment with Bryony Benge-Abbott and A K U Z U R U
Venue: TBC
Amir Denzel Hall
Trinidad & Tobago
Panel Discussion:
How We Danced Our Way Back Home: Exploring Virtual Reality Bodies of Water and Costumes of Representation
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Friday, Oct. 27 7-8pm NAPA FREE
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VR, AI and other technologies raise necessary questions about the role of the body in dance, movement and performance. Join us and New York-based creative technologist, Ayodamola Okunseinde, as we explore how these questions continue to shape his performance practice.
Ayodamola Tanimowo Okunseinde
Nigeria/USA
Panel Discussion:
How We Danced Our Way Back Home: Exploring Virtual Reality Bodies of Water and Costumes of Representation
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Friday, Oct. 27 7-8pm NAPA FREE
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VR, AI and other technologies raise necessary questions about the role of the body in dance, movement and performance. Join us and New York-based creative technologist, Ayodamola Okunseinde, as we explore how these questions continue to shape his performance practice.
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Photo by Phalone
Bryony Benge-Abbott
Trinidad & Tobago/UK
Panel Discussion:
The Colour of Transformation
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Wednesday, Nov. 1 6-7pm FREE
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Art Futures in the Environment with Bryony Benge-Abbott and A K U Z U R U
Venue: TBC
Kieron Sargeant
Trinidad & Tobago/USA
Folk Dance with Kieron Sargeant
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Thursday, Oct. 26 6-7:30pm UTT $20TT
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Contemporary Modern Workshop
Meredith Lyons (USA)
Saturday, Oct. 28 10-11:30am UTT $20TT
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This class aims to develop versatile dancers that find their inner strength and intelligently handle
contemporary/modern dance style. This class will include concepts such as a weighted
and grounded approach to movement, harnessing the body’s momentum and force, emphasis
on intent and focus, and compositional choices through improvisation that build community and
joy across the room. Tend to the body, push it to the max, risk falling, and say something on the
way down! It is encouraged to find the artist in the student and an exchange in the room.
As culture, traditions, ancestry, and legacy is important in its representation of how
dance is taught and shared, this class will include teachings of dance history in the movement, how it pertains to the style, and the people who share in the learning and practicing of dance.
Contemporary Dance
Tamisha Guy (Trinidad & Tobago/USA)
Friday, Oct. 27 6-7:30pm UTT $20TT
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Financial Planning for Artists with Tamisha Guy
Friday Oct. 27 10am-12pm NAPA FREE
Afro-fusion Contemporary Modern
Trent D. Williams Jr. (USA)
Sunday, Oct. 29 at NAPA $20TT
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Students will enjoy a mixture of African and American social and traditional contemporary modern dance styles. Afro-Fusion is designed to strengthen the student's ability to adopt to a range of styles and get an understanding of how these movements are connected.