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.