IN THE PROFESSIONAL ARENA

Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso

Choreography by Cynthia Oliver
Performed by Cynthia Oliver, Leslie Cuyjet, Lisa Green, Ithalia Forel, A’Keitha Carey, Rosamund S. King, Nehassaiu DeGannes, Caryn Hodge
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
Dramaturgy by Renee Redding Jones

Premiered at the Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia PA

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’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.