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New single
from Spice GRENADA
Shola K. Roberts performing with Kowteff African Dance Company. Photo courtesy of Shola K. Roberts
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By Nelson A. King
Award-winning, Grenadian-born,
international dancer and choreographer
Shola K. Roberts is hosting
the inaugural Dance Grenada
International Dance Festival from
Oct. 23-25.
Roberts, the Brooklyn-based
founder and executive director of
Dance Grenada, told Caribbean
Life on Monday that Dance Grenada
is a festival that will provide
a platform for Grenadian and international
dance artisans to “share
and increase their knowledge base
of traditional and contemporary
dance styles and techniques.”
From bele to ballet and Contemporary
Caribbean to Hip Hop, Roberts
said the three-day virtual festival
will include dance workshops
and performances of all kinds,
panel discussions and symposia
“while contributing to the larger
Grenadian and dance community
and the world around them.”
“In starting Dance Grenada, it
was about creating the space, not
waiting for anyone else to create
the space for us,” Roberts said. “We
can’t wait on anyone to acknowledge
or validate what it is that we
have to offer.”
She said participants in this
unique festival will be a part of a
cultural exchange, “which strives to
enliven and enrich the connections
of the African Diaspora through
dance.”
Dance artists, choreographers
and educators will “facilitate, promote
and preserve cultural legacy,
as well as facilitate community
engagement,” said Roberts, a fitness
instructor who has had the
opportunity to work with many
Spice. Marie Driven/PlaybookMG
By Nelson A. King
The Queen of Dancehall, Spice, is
back with an energetic new single,
“Inches,” accompanied by an eccentric
music video.
“Inches” entails Spice showcasing
her well-documented love for all
hair types and instilling confidence in
women to wear their different types of
hair proudly.
“A different viewpoint is captured
with the vast music video with Spice
and other beautiful Black women celebrating
their hair proudly,” Marie Driven,
a Brooklyn-based Haitian American
entertainment guru, told Caribbean
Life.
“From different colors and styles, the
diversity of hairdos speaks dividends
of the power women have in curating
authentic empowering looks,” added
Driven, managing partner of Playbook-
MG. “Spice wanted to use her platform
to help the world understand why
women are so special with hair.”
Spice added, “Women, especially
colored women, have a certain sauce
when it comes to having hair that
showcases their personality. Since men
have their things, being proud of our
hair helps women level the playing field
and gives us something to be cheerful
about.”
Driven said the Jamaican sensation
has always been “the extra ‘Spice’ your
cabinets need to help make everything
in your life feel, look and taste better.
“With ‘Inches,’ she is millimeters
closer to securing a spot on the list for
all-time great music artists,” Driven
said.
GLOBAL
Dance Grenada goes international
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