Cynthia Oliver /COCo Dance Theatre Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso October 15-17 2009 • [Thurs-Sat] • 8:00 PM Admission: $18 ($12 for members) Cynthia Oliver/COCo Dance Theatre's Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso takes calypso in and out of the carnival context and layers it with mythology, hertory, and dance. Six women from the Caribbean diaspora explore "rupture," or break, and discover a shared Caribbean identity across geographical, cultural and aesthetic borders. Through vibrant movement, sound and text, the performers negotiate their individual identities and cut through calypso's melodious innuendo to reveal its political subversive truth-telling and rawness then delivers it in raucous and downright unrespectable levels. A'Keitha Carey, Nehassaiu deGannes, Ithalia Forel, Lisa Green, Caryn Hodge, and Rosamond King make up the multinational cast from Canada, England, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Music and sound design by Jason Finkelman, video by Marcus Behrens, and lighting design by Mandy Ringger. Rigidigidim De Bamba De: Ruptured Calypso is made possible, in part, with funds from the 2009-2010 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This presentation of Cynthia Oliver Co. Dance Theatre (COCo) was made possible in part by the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the National Dance Project, a program administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts. Major support for the National Dance Project is also provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. COCo is funded in part by the National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund, co-commissioned by the Painted Bride Arts Center in partnership with the Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas, the Dance Place, Danspace Project, and Bates Dance Festival. COCo is also funded by the following: the Multi-Arts Production Fund - a program of Creative Capital, which is supported by the Rockefeller Foundation; The Edwards Foundation Arts Fund; and the Dance Department at University of Illinois, The University of Illinois Research and Creative Research Boards. This tour of COCo is made possible by a grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program. Additional tour support was received from the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts.