IN THE PROFESSIONAL ARENA

Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso

Performed by Lisa Green, Ithalia Forel, A’Keitha Carey, Rosamond S. King, Nehassaiu DeGannes, Caryn Hodge

Choreography by Cynthia Oliver

Text by Cynthia Oliver in collaboration with the performers

Direction by Cynthia Oliver

Music and Sound Design by Jason Finkelman

Videography by Marcus Behrens

Lighting by Amanda Ringger

Premiered at the Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia, PA), 2009

Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso is an evening-length multidisciplinary dance theatre project that drifts in and out of the carnival context using calypso dancing as an agent of Afro-Caribbean identity across geographical, national, and aesthetic borders. Rigidigidim De Bamba De’s international cast of artists layer myth, herstory, the spoken word, and calypso dancing to deliver calypso’s subversive truth telling, innuendo, and rawness to raucous and downright unrespectable levels.