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Brief History of The Noble Douglas Dance Company Inc.

With the opening of "Dance...for the B.Holder" A Tribute to Boscoe Holder this week, Estuary Public Relations gives us a brief history of Trinidad and Tobago's premier contemporary modern dance company, The Nobel Dance Company Inc.
Submitted by: Estuary Public Relations | Date: October 2008
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The Noble Douglas Dance Company Inc. (NDDCI) was founded in 1985 by Trinidad and Tobago's dance pioneer, Noble Douglas. With Douglas's commitment to maintaining a small and professional company of strong, disciplined and focused dancers, this soon propelled NDDCI into the fore as one of the premier contemporary modern dance companies in Trinidad and Tobago. Under her artistic direction, the company has toured locally, regionally and internationally on stages in the United States, Southern Africa and the Caribbean for the past twenty-three years. NDDCI continues to nurture and work with many luminaries in dance including internationally based performers, Jeffrey Carter (Europe) and David Byer (Norway), Christal De Souza (UK), Natalie Rogers and Nadine Mose.

One of the company's most innovative and dynamic projects, entitled Black Burlesque (revisited), took the form of an eight year collaboration 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. This project culminated with the 2003 New York premiere of Black Burlesque (revisited) followed by its two and one 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. Until this season, the company has taken a hiatus from the development of its own productions limiting its stage appearances to collaborative works with select companies such as the Marionettes Chorale.

Senior Company Members
Charlene Harris
Charlene Rollock,
Denise Dickson-Cunningham
Louanna Martin
Karla Gonzales
Arlene Frank
Allan Balfour
Dave Williams
Sherid Mason
Kevin Jack
Sunil
Kwasi Romero

Junior Company Members
Malvani Seelal
Nerissa Mc Collin
Dominique Doyle

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1995 season Continuum. Photo courtesy Jeffrey Chock

1995 season Continuum. Photo courtesy Jeffrey Chock

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