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My annotated script "D.O.U.B.T. - A DENSITY" is now available through Movement Research Performance Journal Issue #60: Gender Disarray! Thanks Amalle Dublon for the invite. Including the work of MAAANY amazing writers and artists.... Grab it while you still can!

Journal Entry #4

Well, I don’t know what kind of poetic, experimental thing that I can write here. Because I can only say that this whole research was experimental poetry.

The video was actualized without intention. Even the long shot that my sister took was not even a plan. She has it, I used it. Also music (I gained new skills) I found the main beat (I made) and then I experimented with the session, then I realized it was possible to open all my layers at AL and boom, I have a chance to mix my own mix XD

Of course, editing was experimental. Overlapping scenes were there coincidentally and I said to myself ‘why not’...

So in short, this is the result without needing more explanation,

SCHOLARSHIP AUDITIONS for New Waves! 2018 will be held on Friday, 8 June 2018 at the University of Trinidad & Tobago/Academy for Performing Arts, located at 10 Keate Street, Port of Spain, 3rd Floor Dance Studio from 11am - 1pm. Those attending the AUDITION are required to:

1. Be between the ages of 18 to 30 2. Register by email: [email protected]  3. Bring a dance resume 4. Present a 2-minute improvised or choreographed solo in any style of dance

Now in its 8th year, the New Waves! Institute has offered Local Scholarships since inception. Full and partial scholarships are offered to local Trinidad & Tobago based dancers who demonstrated a high level of technical and creative ability or potential, as well as financial need. New Waves! 2018 will be held from 25 July - 1 August, with an internationally renowned faculty and guest artists. All scholarship recipients attend New Waves! for the full length of the program. Learn more about New Waves! 2018 here. 

ALL NEW Dancers of the Cloth Scholarship for Orisha, Spiritual Baptist and Rada Communities

The Dancers of the Cloth Scholarship, sponsored by The Cloth (Founder and Creative Director, Robert Young) is dedicated to sourcing, supporting and enabling dance talent in the Orisha, Spiritual Baptist and Rada communities of Trinidad and Tobago to access formal training. Two (2) Full Scholarships for New Waves! 2018 will be awarded, including transport costs. 

The Cloth and New Waves! share the intention of decolonizing scholarship, performance, and representation through empowering people of the Caribbean to become cultural ambassadors of their own communities and practices, and counter-narrate representation by outsider voices and research. Our organizations will scout talent and seek recommendations from the communities. Endorsement for each candidate will be sought from their community and religious leaders. We believe this important to foster community by-in and intergenerational collaboration and self- empowerment. We want to encourage the younger generation to recognize and respect the value the life’s work of their elders and ancestors in the preservation of knowledge and practices. 

Second Year of MRX/Trinidad New Waves! Institute M.E.L.T Scholarships in New York City

The Dance & Performance Institute has again partnered with Movement Research to offer scholarships for Caribbean dance artists to MELT Summer. Scholarships cover tuition for two full weeks of participation in MELT Summer 2018, which takes place over the course of five weeks – from July 9 – August 10, 2018- in New York City. The Scholarship also offers: Artist-Host Accommodation in New York; Artist/Scholar Mentorship; and a stipend for local transportation.This year's MRX/New Waves! Institute Scholarships are being supported by Movement Research's Artists of Color Council (AoCC) and the New Waves! Institute.

MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer and winter. Taught by Movement Research’s internationally recognized faculty as well as acclaimed guest artists, these workshops provide students with the unique opportunity to engage with some of the most highly regarded and innovative artists in the field of dance today. Faculty includes Michelle Boulé, K.J. Holmes, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Miguel Gutierrez, Jasmine Hearn, Tere O'Connor, Antonio Ramos, and André M. Zachery.