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How is Rex Nettleford remembered?
A special feature of this year’s celebration was a tribute to NDTC founding member and former dean of the School of Dance at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Barbara Requa. Her contribution was described as “immense and immeasurable”.
When did Rex Nettleford die?
February 2, 2010
Rex Nettleford/Date of death
What did Rex Nettleford contribute to Jamaica?
Through dance, Professor Nettleford tried to preserve Jamaica’s cultural heritage and in 1962 co-founded the National Dance Theatre Company to extend his cultural vision. The dance company has gained recognition for its well established repertoire of ballets, dance dramas among others.
What is Rex Nettleford known for?
Professor the Honourable Ralston Milton Nettleford, better known as Rex Nettleford, was a national patriot, cultural ambassador, international scholar, dancer, choreographer, orator and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies. Nettleford was born February 3, 1933 in Bunkers Hill, Trelawny.
When was Rex Nettleford Hall built?
2002
Preston Hall and then to the construction of a new 800 room hall of Residence. That marked the birth of Rex Nettleford Hall. The Hall was officially opened in 2002.
Where is Rex Nettleford from?
Falmouth, Jamaica
Rex Nettleford/Place of birth
Born on 3 February 1933 in Falmouth, Jamaica, Nettleford attended Unity Primary School in Bunkers Hill, Trelawny, and graduated from Cornwall College in Montego Bay, Jamaica, before going to the University of the West Indies (UWI) to obtain an honours degree in history.
Who is Olive Lewin in Jamaica?
Olive Lewin OD OM (28 September 1927 – 10 April 2013) was a Jamaican author, social anthropologist, musicologist, and teacher. She is probably best known for her recorded anthologies of old Jamaica folk songs, researched and collected over her lifetime.
What does choreography describe?
Choreography is the art of making dances, the gathering and organization of movement into order and pattern.
Where was Rex Nettleford buried?
An intimate group of family and close friends gathered yesterday at the private cemetery adjoining the University Chapel at Mona campus for the interment of late Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Rex Nettleford’s ashes.
Who taught Jamaicans to be proud of language?
Patois developed in the 17th century when slaves from West and Central Africa were exposed to, learned, and nativized the vernacular and dialectal forms of English spoken by the slaveholders: British English, Scots, and Hiberno-English.
Who is the leader of the Jamaican folk singers?
The group’s current musical director is Christine MacDonald-Nevers, whose mother, the soprano Marilyn Brice-MacDonald, is one of the longest serving members.