Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College presents National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica 3 New York Premieres

Thursday, January 19, 2017
6 – 7PM

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College continues its 2016-17 season with the much-anticipated return of National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica (NDTC) on Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 8pm and on Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 3pm. A biennial visitor to Brooklyn Center for more than two decades, NDTC celebrates its 55th anniversary with a program combining evocative new works with favorites from their extensive repertoire. The residency includes three New York premieres, including “Mountain Climbing,” created by choreographer Chris Walker in tribute to NDTC’s Founding Artistic Director Rex Nettleford, who passed away in 2010.

Tickets for Saturday evening are $40-$75 and tickets for Sunday matinee are $36-$45, and can be purchased at BrooklynCenter.org or by calling the box office at 718-951-4500 (Tue-Sat, 1pm-6pm).

Co-founded by Rex Nettleford and Eddy Thomas in 1962, at the time of Jamaica’s Independence, NDTC ventures to provide an atmosphere in which dancers could create and perform works of high standards, to encourage the Jamaican public to better appreciate the art of dance, and to research and utilize indigenous dance-forms and movement pattern from Jamaica and the wider Caribbean.

The repertoire for the company’s 2017 Brooklyn residency includes:

Folktales (2003), choreography by Clive Thompson

Labess (2002), choreography by David Brown

You/We (2016), traditional Jamaican folk songs arranged by Ewan Simpson, featuring NDTC singers and orchestra

Into The Blue (2014), choreography by Renee McDonald, New York premiere

Hommage a’Dambala (2016), choreography by Kevin Moore, music by Ewan Simpson and Jeff Pierre, New York premiere

Mountain Climbing (2014), a tribute to NDTC Founding Artistic Director Rex Nettleford, choreography by Chris Walker, a New York premiere

Gerrehbenta (1983), choreography by Rex Nettleford

Organized by

Michelle Tabnick Communications

Contact

lilli@michelletabnickcommunications.com