The National Gallery of Jamaica’s Last Sundays programme for March 2014 is scheduled for Sunday, March 30, from 11 am to 4 pm.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to view the National Gallery’s acclaimed Explorations II: Religion and Spirituality exhibition, which explores the role of religion and spirituality in Jamaican culture and history, by means of 68 works from the NGJ collections, some of them well known and others only rarely exhibited. The exhibition, which continues until April 27, includes work by artists such as Osmond Watson, Edna Manley, Mallica “Kapo” Reynolds, Carl Abrahams, Everald and Clinton Brown, Renee Cox, Ebony G. Patterson, Gloria Escoffery, Norma Rodney-Harrack and Omari Ra.
The featured performance for the day, which starts at 1:30 pm, will be an excerpt from the dance production TRIAD, which was choreographed by Kim-Lee Campbell, a full-time dancer and choreographer and a final year student in the BFA programme in Dance Performance and Choreography at the Edna Manley College. Campbell is the first recipient of the Institute of Jamaica’s Rex Nettleford Memorial Scholarship Award (2013) and her works have been featured in Jamaica Dance Umbrella, the annual University Dance Society Season of Dance and Danceworks. She is also the Project Director for a performing arts community development programme Yaad Arts in the August Town community.
TRIAD, which will be performed by Sophia McKain, Simone Harris and Nneka Staple, explores the similarities between three women who face sexuality-based discrimination, because of their style of dress. The three women take the audience on a journey through movement; exposing issues of love, their fears, anger, frustrations, anxiety and the many emotions that surface within the minds of the discriminated. The dance implores us to remember that we are all humans. Focused on understanding the body, mind and spirit connection; this piece is a holistic interrogation. The movement vocabulary for TRIAD evolves from a base of hatha yoga postures, abstracted and fused with Caribbean folk nuances, and encompasses a contemporary modern style. The movement writes to unique percussion soundscapes layered with the vocals of Sweet Honey in the Rock and poetry. TRIAD is a final year production that will be performed in full at the School of Dance, Edna Manley College on May 9, 2014.
As is now customary for Last Sundays, admission to the NGJ will be free on Sunday, March 30, and free guided tours and gallery-based children’s activities will also be offered. Our gift and coffee shop will be open for business and contributions to the donations box are welcomed. Revenues from our shops and donations help to fund programmes such as the Religion and Spirituality exhibition and our Last Sunday programming.
Click here to read more about the Explorations II: Religion and Spirituality exhibition.
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