Tea and Talk

TEA AND TALK WITH CLEO PARKER ROBINSON EP: 6

TEA AND TALK WITH CLEO PARKER ROBINSON - NASSAU BAHAMAS - SEASON 3 EP6 American choreographer Cleo Parker Robinson, founder and artistic director of the internationally renowned Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (CPRD), has been a transformative force in dance for more than five decades. Founded in 1970 in Denver’s historic Five Points neighbourhood, her company is celebrated for its multicultural approach to modern dance, drawing inspiration from African American, Caribbean, African, and global movement traditions. Robinson, who was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 1989 and appointed to the National Council on the Arts by President Bill Clinton in 1999, has toured in more than 30 countries and served as a cultural ambassador worldwide. In 1992 Mrs. Parker Robinson was brought to The Bahamas in an advisory capacity through The Bahamas Government and The United States Embassy, Nassau. After 33 years Mrs. Parker Returned to The Bahamas to celebrate this milestone with the National Dance Company of The Bahamas.

TEA AND TALK WITH KELVIN COOPER - S3 E5

TEA AND TALK WITH KELVIN COOPER S3 - EP5 Kelvin Cooper is the Chair and Professor in the Health, Physical Education and Recreation Department at Bronx Community College. He is certified in both fitness and yoga. He has adjunct at NYU teaching Afro-Caribbean dance, and he is a teaching artist for the Alvin Ailey Arts Education Program. He has taught, directed intercultural dance and wellness workshops, conferences and performances on the continent of Africa, South America, Asia, North America and Europe. These are all opportunities that have allowed him to explore much of his healing and creative work on Restorative Practice with diverse communities. He uses this practice to create joy, wellness, and safe space in addressing two fundamental needs of human beings; the need to be connected to your authentic self and the need to be connected to others for mutual support and resources.

Tea and Talk with - Cristin Carole - Shirley Hall-Bass Forum 2025 Ep4

Tea and Talk with - Cristin Carole - Shirley Hall-Bass Forum 2025 S3 Ep4 Co- Founder Shirley Hall Bass Forum Cristin Carole is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, dancer and arts educator. With over 20 years of multi-media performances, curriculum development experience and arts integration methodologies developed in the United states and abroad, Cristin works to bring a greater understanding of content standards, planning, implementation and assessment to teaching artists through professional development workshops and graduate level education courses. Most recently she brought her insight as both and artist and elementary classroom teacher to her award winning educational programming and professional development workshops for the Joffrey Ballet. Mission of The Shirley Hall-Bass Forum The mission of the Shirley Hall Bass Dance Educators Forum, first convened in 2019 in Nassau, Bahamas is to establish dance as a driving force in Bahamian education, tourism and national identity through the development of a professional learning community with concerted focus on quality education from K-12.

TEA AND TALK WITH LINDSAY BRAYNEN -Season 3 -Episode 3

LINDSAY BRAYNEN Lindsay Braynen [she/her] is a Bahamian-born performing artist currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Known by her stage name Androsia Wilde - “The Bahama Mama Of Burlesque” - her performing journey spans over 3,000 miles and has taken her through the realms of alternative modeling, martial arts, immersive theatre, acting for television, dance, and most importantly - burlesque. Her burlesque career started in May 2014 with her much-lauded debut as Lando Calrissian in Geekenders' initial production of "The Empire Strips Back", and she has since set stages ablaze with acts that deftly combine her love of storytelling and pop-culture, with a personal pride in her Bahamian heritage.

TEA AND TALK WITH NICOLETTE BETHEL - SEASON 3 - EP2

TEA AND TALK WITH NICOLETTE BETHEL - SEASON 3 - EP2 Nicolette Bethel was born and raised in Nassau, Bahamas to parents Keva (the principal and then the president of the College of the Bahamas) and Clement (who was a concert pianist and a composer and a choral director) Bethel. She studied at Trinity College at the University of Toronto and at Corpus Christi College, where she got a PhD in Social Anthropology. She also lived and worked in the UK and Canada and later moved back to the Bahamas where she served as Director of Culture for the Bahamas for five years. When Nicolette moved back to The Bahamas she got involved with Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts, which was the community theatre of the time. During this time, she met and married her husband Phillip Burrows and they moved to Canada for a few years. Upon returning in 2000 they formed Ringplay Productions, mostly with the former members of the Dundas repertory company. She later went into the government to work as Director of Culture. Years later she left the government and produced Shakespeare in Paradise. Nicolette is a playwright, poet, fiction writer, and anthropologist who is the Chair of Social Sciences at the University of The Bahamas. She is also a theatre producer and director and is the founder and Festival Director of Shakespeare in Paradise, co-founder and Vice-President of Ringplay Productions, and Vice-Chair of the Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts in Nassau, Bahamas.