NEW YORK – L’Acadco – A United Caribbean Dance Power, Jamaica’s main modern dance firm, makes its return to New York Metropolis after a 20-year absence, for a particular gala efficiency on the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay Faculty on Thursday, January 11, 2024.
Consul Normal of Jamaica to New York, Mrs. Alsion Roach-Wilson, OD., serves as Patron of the occasion, which can honor Dr. Una S.T. Clarke, and being held below the theme: Constructing Bridges By The Arts. Half proceeds will go in direction of the New-York primarily based Jamaican charity, Kids of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) Inc. Tickets obtainable at www.touchstonelink.com/lacadco
The one-night efficiency will showcase the artistry, dynamism and strategy of L’Acadco’s extraordinary dancers who’re set to thrill returning followers in addition to first time attendees. The night will embody modern works and items exploring well-liked and conventional Caribbean types highlighting choreographers Jessica Shaw, Orville McFarlane and L’Antoinette Stines, Inventive Director. Satta and Honfour, two of the corporate’s signature works choreographed by Dr. Stines, shall be carried out.
Lineup
The evening’s lineup will function particular visitor performer Amma D. McKen, Yoruba Orisha Singer and Priestess of Yemonja. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, McKen has sung conventional sacred Yoruba music since she was 14. McKen holds a number of roles and titles in Yoruba, together with the title of Akpon, a lead singer and officiator for the drumming and dancing celebrations. She turned the primary African American feminine Akpon to supply a musical recording of the normal songs, titled Alaako Oso: Proprietor of the Songs is Eloquent.
This electrifying cultural change guarantees to go away patrons spellbound and enthralled.
L’Acadco had its genesis in 1978, when Dr. L’Antoinette Stines established the primary black dance firm in Miami. She returned to Jamaica in 1982, the place she continued to develop along with her firm, changing into a compelling consultant of Jamaican and Caribbean tradition.
Dr. Stines is the creator of L’Antech, a up to date Caribbean dance method – the corporate’s motion language. Her experience in Classical Ballet and well-liked and folkloric Jamaican and Caribbean moment vocabularies enabled her to create this technique of coaching our bodies whereas exploring choreographic work impressed by the virility of her island’s tradition and ancestry, the sensuality of its individuals and the pure mystic within the air.
