Host: Kieron Dwayne Sargeant Dance Foundation TT
Presents: Dancing Caribbean Histographies, Ethnographies and Choreographies
Discipline: Caribbean Dance/ Music/ Theatre
Skill Level: Beginner
Description: Zoom Lecture Demonstrative Series 3:
Kalinda: Pre-colonial discourse and magical realism within African-Caribbean movement technologies
Date | Time: Saturday 31st October, 2020| 2:00 PM [EST]
Location: Online Zoom Session
Facilitator: Jamie J. Philbert
Choreographer, Dance Artist, Cultural Researcher, Educator, Designer, Curator, and Filmmaker, Jamie Philbert is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, brought up in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, and a dance graduate of Fiorello H. La Guardia High School for Music, Art and the Performing Arts. Upon graduating, she founded Echoes Dance Company and began presenting her choreography while freelancing for dance companies and choreographers like Janis Brenner, Nathan Trice/Rituals, Roger C. Jeffrey, Alfred Gallman, Nia Love Blacksmiths Daughter, Charles Moore Dance Theater, and H.T. Chen and dancers.
In 2012, Jamie developed a music and movement program for early childhood education that fostered more than 1000 children throughout New York City. She has choreographed and performed in music videos for artists such as Blitz The Ambassador and Umar Bin Hassan of legendary known, The Last Poets. When she returned to T&T in 2015, she was appointed the Movement and Dance Coordinator for the National Performing Entities of Trinidad and Tobago.
In 2018, as a curator, she premiered her first art, performance and panel exhibition featuring exemplary artist, Sarah Burrows. The panel conversation focused on the condition of women in Trinidad and Tobago, the effects of gender based violence and how art can be used as a tool for igniting healing. She has directed three short films, two fashion films and one dance film. In 2018, she received the award for Best Caribbean Fashion Film from Caribbean Fashion Arts and Feature Festival for her film, SANKOFA. Jamie Philbert is the founder of Art On Purpose, a multifaceted lifestyle brand that promotes social awareness and cultural responsibility through dance performance and education, fashion and creative arts education.
In 2019, she began an official rites of passage journey towards becoming a bois woman, a warrior woman of Kalinda. This journey inspired her to conceptualize and develop a dance and performance technique rooted in the tradition and culture of Trinidad and Tobago’s martial art form, Kalinda. This initiative is supported by and co-created with Rondel Benjamin, Founder of Bois Academy of Trinidad and Tobago and the transitioned legendary bois man, King David Matthew Brown, also known as “Acid”. Her work in this realm serves to continue the veneration of the keepers and ancestors of the tradition and empower the sustainability of this multidimensional cultural form.
Jamie currently serves as the Director/Pointer of Bois Academy of Trinidad and Tobago. Jamie believes in the power of art and its ability to heal and create dynamic change. She dedicates all her movement and magic to the legacy of her transitioned parents, Dennis and Veronica Philbert.
Cost:
- $40 TTD – Trinidad & Tobago Participants
- $7 USD – Caribbean Participants
- $10 USD – International College Students
- $15 USD – International Participants
Key Dates:
- Registration Begins: 28th October 2020 12:00 PM [EST]
- Registration Ends: 30th October 2020 12:00 PM [EST]
Workshop details submitted by: Kieron Sargeant
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