Tag: Dance


  • There’s a conversation that takes place in Jamaica about Dancehall versus Soca very regularly. And that conversation gets very heated around Jamaica Carnival. It’s a hard conversation for me to listen to, because having lived in Jamaica – I studied at UWI, Mona – I hear the xenophobia in the comments. Too often when Jamaican…

  • [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbkXH5KxwCk?rel=0] The launch took place Thursday evening. Watching the performance live was interesting, because he walks through the audience and it had a very immersive feel to it. which is insufficiently captured on camera. It also helped having him explain it to you, but I’m reminded of my previous discussion with co-founder of COCO,…

  • In a totally spur of the moment decision,  I found myself at the Granderson Lab for the New Waves! 2016 Opening Celebration Fundraiser.