1995-2004
2003/04
Fontlife
Fontlife is a site-specific piece using live music created by IRIE! dance theatre for the Eastern Fountain at Trafalgar Square – a celebration of the spirit of the water, Yemoja.
Choreography: Beverley Glean, Denzil Barnes and Dancers
Costumes: Janey Gardiner
Musicians: Charles James, Anthony Reid, Zozo Shuaibu
Dancers: Chrissie Adesina, Nas Evanson, Denzil Barnes, Jermaine Pemberton-Smith, Darriell Aldridge, Sarah Akinbiyi, Florance Okwan
2002/03
Got It Covered
An exciting blend of movement, which focuses on undulation and pulsation, a technique prevalent in traditional and contemporary Caribbean dance. The use of Soca music evokes the vitality of a carnival atmosphere.
Choreography: Beverley Glean
Set & Costumes: Janey Gardiner
Lighting Design: Phil Supple
Performers: Natalie Simons-Clifford, Simone Foster, Michelle Kwarteng, Denzil Barnes
Icon
Inspired by the works of Maya Angelou and Ted Joans and set in an abstract world inspired by images, memories, poetry and music, Icon journeys through landscapes of both questions and discoveries.
Choreography: Lincoln Allert
Set & Costumes: Janey Gardiner
Lighting Design: Phil Supple
Performers: Natalie Simons-Clifford, Simone Foster, Michelle Kwarteng, Denzil Barnes
Don’t Test
Choreography: Beverley Glean, Curtis James & the Company
Creative Advisor: Benji Reid
Set & Costumes: Janey Gardiner
Lighting Design: Phil Supple
Performers: Christy Adesina, Natalie Simon-Clifford, Semone Foster, Michelle Kwarteng, Denzil Barnes
Click the link below to view the program for Got It Covered:
2001/02
As Close As A Breath
Don’t Test
This piece focuses on different challenges and trials that we all face throughout lives. The work deals with relationships and communication in an earnest and sometimes humorous way. Performed as a series of sketches, the work poses a number of questions such as:
At what point does a test become a challenge?
And the movement holds steadfast to IRIE!’s style of fusion and synthesising traditional African and Caribbean dance with Contemporary dance.
Choreography: Beverley Glean, Curtis James & the Company
Creative Advisor: Benji Reid
Set & Costumes: Janey Gardiner
Lighting Design: Phil Supple
Performers: Natalie Simon-Clifford, Naomi Czuba, Paulette Ryan, Christy Adesina, Kwesi Johnson
1999/02
Continuous Currents
Continuous Currents is based on a poem of the same name written by Albie Ollivierre.
Choreography: Beverley Glean, Lincoln Allert & Albie Ollivierre
Costumes & Set: Janey Gardiner
Music & Songs: Zozo Shuaibu & Jubal Carbon
Lighting: Phil Supple
Performers: Paulette Ryan, Chrissie Adesina, Jubal Carbon, Jacqueline Henry, Chidi
1997/98
Making Strides
Drumology
Composers & Musicians: Jubal Carbon, Billy Lawrence & Zozo Shuaibu
Costume Design: Janey Gardiner
EVOREVO Clash
The piece is an Afro-Carimod ballet presenting a contemporary representation of African influenced dances from the Caribbean.
Choreography: L’Antoinette Stines
Set & Costumes: Kathryn Chan
Lighting Design: Richard Moffatt
Music: Kahlil Aaron Vereen
Dancers: Christy Adesina, Albie Ollivierre, Paulette Ryan, Safwaan, Sharon Sterne, Andrew Williams
Respect
Respect is a tribute to the wonderful music and spiritual legacy of Bob Marley. Choreography: Beverley Glean
Set & Costumes: Janey Gardiner
Music: Bob Marley-Natural Mystic, Turn Your Lights Down Low, One Love (Exodus); So Jah Say, Natty Dread (Natty Dread); Johnny Was (Rastaman Vibration); No Woman no Cry, Exodus (Legend); and One Love (Exodus).
Lighting Design: Richard Moffatt
Dancers: The Company
1996/97
Connecting Vibes
Connecting Vibes
Connecting Vibes was inspired by West African artefacts. It is a powerful all-male piece that embroiders music and dance expressing beauty and sensuality.
Choreography: Beverley Glean
Set & Costumes: Janey Gardiner
Lighting Design: Richard Moffatt
Music: A Elegua (Merceditas Valdés), A Ja Ja (Babatunde Olatunji), A Ochun (Merceditas Valdés), Ogun La Ka Aiye (Babatunde Olatunji)
Dancers: Lincoln Allert, Malachi Spaulding, Albie Ollivierre & Safwaan
Drumology
Drumology – a live drumming set with a fusion of drum rhythms from Africa, the Caribbean and South America.
Music: Zozo Shuaibu, Jubal Carbon & Tafari Morgan
Caribbean Suite
Caribbean Suite is a dance theatre presentation rooted in the history and sensibilities of people nurtured over centuries in a dynamic Caribbean environment. The dance pays particular attention to the movement vocabulary unique to the vernacular of cultures within the Caribbean, reflecting the social events, religious rituals, secular as well as recreational dance/music heritage.
Choreography: Jackie Guy
Set & Costumes: Janey Gardiner
Lighting Design: Richard Moffatt
Music: Jubal Carbon, Tafari Morgan & Zozo Shuaibu
Dancers: The Company
1996
Ancient Futures
Ancient Futures – An international season of black dance featuring three different companies who fuse African and Caribbean dance with Contemporary dance and or ballet in their own unique way.
IRIE! dance theatre – UK
Forces of Nature – USA
L’Acadco – Jamaica
Click the link below to view the program for Ancient Futures:
1995/95
Rude Girls’ Party
In a special temple, located in a small village far away from the city, lives four women each endowed by special qualities after which they are named – Strength, Purpose, Pain and Passion. They are also the guardians of music. Their role is to protect music and stop it from being used to cause harm. Through Rude Girls’ Party you share their experiences as they endeavour to protect their gifts from being tainted by the cruel realities of life. And you journey with them as they experience anguish, madness, hope and joy.
Choreography: Beverley Glean & The Company
Poems: Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
Music: Zozo Shuaibu, Jubal Carbon
Costumes: Ursuela Bomshell
Dancers: Ayo Jones, Bolaji Badejo, Christy Adesina & Sharon Sterne
Click the link below to view the program for Rude Girls’ Party:
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