The Co­co Dance Fes­ti­val cel­e­brates its third year as the on­ly an­nu­al con­tem­po­rary dance fes­ti­val in the Eng­lish-speak­ing Caribbean.This year the Con­tem­po­rary Chore­o­g­ra­phers' Col­lec­tive (CO­CO) has ti­tled it's sea­son, Pro­jec­tions. The pro­duc­tion will be staged at the Lit­tle Carib The­atre in Wood­brook on No­vem­ber 10-13, at 7 pm.

As co-founder of the Fes­ti­val, Son­ja Du­mas ex­plains, "We're look­ing at the con­cept of pro­jec­tions in a num­ber of ways; in ad­di­tion to the mul­ti-me­dia video pro­jec­tion com­po­nent for some pieces, we want to cel­e­brate new strides in chore­o­graph­ic work. It's a way of pro­ject­ing our­selves on to the fu­ture of dance."

The fes­ti­val be­gan as the in­ten­tion on the part of four chore­o­g­ra­phers, Dave Williams, Du­mas, Nan­cy Her­rera and Nicole Wes­ley, to cre­ate a co­op­er­a­tive plat­form for their work and the work of oth­er chore­o­g­ra­phers work­ing in con­tem­po­rary, ex­per­i­men­tal and post-mod­ern styles.

Last week the Co­co com­mit­tee an­nounced the names of the chore­o­g­ra­phers who had been se­lect­ed from sub­mis­sions by chore­o­g­ra­phers. In ad­di­tion to the works of the Co­co four or their com­pa­nies, works by Heather Hen­der­son Gor­don, Ani­ka Mar­celle, Brid­gette Wil­son and vi­su­al/per­for­mance artist Michelle Isa­va will be fea­tured. The spe­cial guest artiste is con­tem­po­rary chore­o­g­ra­ph­er Neila Ebanks from Ja­maica.

In keep­ing with its mis­sion of of­fer­ing a plat­form for new ideas and fresh think­ing, Co­co al­so se­lect­ed and in­vit­ed no­table sub­mis­sions by stu­dents pur­su­ing dance de­grees at The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies and The Uni­ver­si­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Tick­ets cost $100 and are avail­able from par­tic­i­pat­ing chore­o­g­ra­phers and at the Lit­tle Carib The­atre box of­fice dur­ing the week of the show. Dis­counts are avail­able at each show for ter­tiary-lev­el stu­dents with valid iden­ti­fi­ca­tion. For fur­ther in­for­ma­tion vis­it Co­co Dance Fes­ti­val on Face­book.