Cynthia Oliver Company Dance Theatre
8:00pm on Friday and Saturday, February 19-20, 2010
Location: Erickson Theatre Off Broadway | 1524 Harvard Ave Seattle, WA 98122 (map)
Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso takes calypso in and out of the carnival context and layers it with mythology, hertory, and dance. Six women from the Caribbean diaspora explore “rupture,” or break, and discover a shared Caribbean identity across geographical, cultural and aesthetic borders. Through vibrant movement, sound and text, the performers negotiate their individual identities and cut through calypso’s melodious innuendo to reveal its political subversive truth-telling and rawness then delivers it in raucous and downright unrespectable levels.
Rigidigidim is an experiment in disjuncture, in the sonic and visual landscapes of Caribbean realities and mythology. In Oliver’s signature repeating, overlapping, non-linear style, Rigidigidim forces performers from the Caribbean diaspora to navigate their multiple national and regional identity through their voices, stories, and vibrant bodies.
Tickets: $20 General Admission, $15 Students/Seniors
Purchase tickets online at brownpapertickets.com or call 1-800-838-3006.
Want more?
- Check out our hot video on YouTube!
- Join us for the after party to toast the artists at Afterglow!
- Professional dancers get a chance to take a Dance Workshop with Cynthia Oliver.
- Ask the artist questions about her creative process at our CD Forum Session.
About the Artist:
- Check out Cynthia Oliver and Company Dance Theatre’s Artist Website
- See what the New York Times had to say about Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso
- Read interviews with Cynthia Oliver about her work in Time Out New York, R&D Magazine and Painted Bride.
- See what savvy bloggers are saying about this provocative new work on Media Mind Candy Review and InfiniteBody
Sponsors: the National Performance Network and the National Dance Project
Media Sponsor: KUOW
