biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1941– )
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| biography:
| Choreographer and dance teacher, born in Jamaica. The son of Jamaica's chief education officer, he began dancing with the National Dance Company of Jamaica, went on to the Dance Theater of Detroit, and then began teaching dance at the State University of New York (SUNY), Brockport (near Rochester). Working with mostly disadvantaged African-American students, he formed an amateur ensemble (1970) that soon became known as the Bucket Dance Theater. The troupe gained a widening reputation for its exciting blending of Afro-Caribbean with modern dance styles, and he maintained his post at SUNY while giving increasing amounts of time to his now internationally recognized dance company. He gained a wider national exposure with Griot, his 1992 collaboration with composer and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. |
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