Workshops
Nicole Wesley holds training workshops for secondary school teachers at Signal Hill Secondary School and Preysal Secondary School in September, 2022 under the COCO in the Community programme, and in conjunction with the Secondary Schools Dance Educators Association of Trinidad and Tobago
COCO Dance Festival 2022
The Contemporary Choreographers’ Collective, COCO 2022 streamed live from Queen's Hall in Port of Spain, Trinidad, on October 29 & 30, 2022. This was the fourteenth year of this amazing dance presentation, which featured the work of dance artists from Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, the USA, and Mexico.
Healthy Foods, Healthy Moves
This animated dance and health video is a collaboration between COCO and Sandra Vivas Art of Dominica to bring awareness to children’s wellbeing through animated dance.
COCO and Carnival
Camilla Quamina interviews "mas philosopher" Tracey Sankar-Charleau for COCO Dance Festival. As a performer for COCO, Tracey brings a wealth of expertise as a mas artist into the world of contemporary dance.
Contemporary Class at UTT
Fulbright scholar and PhD candidate Anne Wharton teaches a contemporary class focusing on release technique at the University of Trinidad & Tobago as part of COCO’s outreach to the community. A full recording of class is coming online soon for participants who wish to take the class at home.
Launch of COCO Online Expansion
Sonja Dumas discusses the future of Contemporary Caribbean Dance with Malene Joseph, Neila Ebanks and John Hunte for the online launch of COCO Dance Festival 2022.
Dance in Grenada
Cecilia Griffith, Artistic Director of Conception Dance Theatre in Grenada, conducts a class in the village of Tivoli in the northeast part of the island.
Dance in Grenada
Cecilia Griffith of Conception Dance Theatre teaches two dance classes.
Dance in Grenada
Cecilia Griffith of Conception Dance Theatre teaches two dance classes.
The COCO Journey
The COCO Journey" is a short retrospective documentary that serves to chronicle a few of the challenges and triumphs of the Contemporary Choreographers' Collective's 14-going-on-15-year effort to develop dance in the Caribbean region. Many lessons can be learnt.
Dance Production Manual
As part of the 2019 COCO in the Community effort, COCO developed and presented a brief teaching aid for all Caribbean Theatre Arts teachers to assist them in their delivery of the production side of the arts. This manual is an expansion of that presentation on dance production from which educators and young professionals in the business can benefit.
This project was made possible through CIIF’s Community of Practice.