*Celebrating L.D.T.'s Five Year Journey 2006 to 2011 Hosted by: Liberata Dance Theatre, Inc. at Joria Main Stage Theater 3rd Floor 260 West 36th Street Between 7th and 8th Avenues Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
December 2nd, and 3rd, 2011 Friday and Saturday evenings 8:00PM Tickets $25 Donation 100% Tax deductible.
For ticket information or Also to post an Ad in our program contact: Samuel Sherrod
At: 212 971-6054 or 917 692-5492 Email: curaterra@aol.com Web: www.LiberataDT.org
*This is a Fundraising Event that will include Video Projections, Live Performances and Refreshments.
The Curacao Tourist Board in America honored Curacao's first Prime Minister Gerrit F. Schotte on Friday, September 23, 2011, in New York City at Jumeirah Essex House on Central Park South. Liberata Dance Theatre, Inc. was invited by Andre Rojer, Director of the Curacao Tourist Board in the U.S.A. Myrena Sint Jago, President/Artistic Director of LDT. Inc. is pictured left with Prime Minister Schotte.
The picture directly below, taken with Prime Minister Schotte, is of all those present who are from Curacao currently living and working in the surrounding areas of New York City. Myrena is pictured in the fore ground on the right with Eliane Emmanuel of the Aruban Antillean Cultural Affairs Association.
Also present were Arthur Kibbelaar, Consul for Press and Cultural Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands, pictured with Myrena below left; and Jacqueline Kolmes, Cruises Inc. pictured right with Samuel Sherrod, Secretary/Treasurer LDT, Inc. Jacqueline is one of Myrena's dance acquaintances from years ago and now operates her own travel business in New York City.
Myrena Sint Jago, Artistic Director of Liberata Dance Theatre, Inc. recently got her poetry in the local newspapers in Curacao. If you can read Papiamentu/Dutch or would just like to see the article go to http://www.amigoe.com/ which is one of the newspapers carrying this article, look at Ingezonden and then find the article on the right side "Pais Korsou, nos ta stime?
This article and poem describes the issues related to the cleanliness or lack there of on the Public beaches and recreation areas in Curacao. The litter has become unbearable and there does not seem to be a system of maintaining a way of keeping it clean. The people cannot depend on the businesses, or sanitation departments to help, the only thing remaining to do is to change the culture and habits of the people to refrain from leaving their garbage behind, because that is where it will remain for weeks and months.
This is an example of the power of art to bring about change in the family, community and country. Art, when presented in a meaningful and thoughtful manner can be a political tool to encourage change throughout the world. In this case Myrena Sint Jago follows in the steps of the Poet Elis Juliana and many others from Curacao who inspired cultural enrichment via creativity.
(The updated drawing above is for a portrait painting of Myrena Sint Jago, a work in progress by Samuel Sherrod)
Greta Trapenberg, President LDTCC received a well deserved award at our board meeting on July 19, 2011 in Curacao. Members present were Boi Strickx, Treasurer; Norma Cova, Secretary; Lila Leito, Vivian Ersilia, Evy Nicolaas, Genevieve Coffie from Germany was also present along with Samuel Sherrod and Myrena Sint Jago from New York City. The board members in Curacao have been hard at work having fundraisers like: two (2) years ago they raised funds raffling off a Blackberry; This past year they increased LDTCC's bank account by having a raffle for a Hyatt Hotel Weekend Stay with Breakfast included. Other board members received small tokens of appreciation with the Teamwork theme in the form of mouse pads and pencil holders.
Laverne Sparrow, Barry Alexander &Manuel Moran were this year's Honored Guests and Award Recipients.
Liberata Dance Theatre's Annual Event was a huge success this year 2011 Part One.
LDT's Second Annual Fundraiser Dinner/Lucy Awards Ceremony was held at the Ailey Studios on Saturday April 9 2011. The evening included our "Lucy" Award ceremony, a dinner and performance by different artists plus a performance by LDT. The name Lucy was chosen as an honor to the remnants of the first human being which was found in Africa. The first human being from whom all of us descended, Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, White and all in between.
Climatological differences; an honor to Lucy's descendants who are doing wonderful things in the arts and in our community. Our honorees were Manuel Moran, Laverne Sparrow and Barry Alexander. Solo presentations by two great performers Sheila Galilei and Andy Monroe in addition to a song by Barry Alexander one of our honored guests.
LDT performed a poem "SPRING"= INSPIRATION= CELEBRATION written and choreographed by Myrena Sint Jago, President and Artistic Director and directed by Luis Caballero and guest performer and LDT's advisor, Fred Johnson, a multi-talented individual. The evening was openend by Soni Caballero with a beautiful chant and ceremonial blessing. LDT also presented a piece on "Carnaval", a joyous, colorful music and dance. LDT performers included Haruka Fujimoto, Coreen Robledo and Carrie See Yuen who is also on the Board of Directors and MC for this event. The group had the audience dancing and clapping. Again, it was a successful evening with a lot of food, laughter, applause, inspiration, celebration, networking and possibilities.
LDT received various donations and promises for in-kind-service. It was a full house of supporters, donors, friends, a number of board members and a few advisors and their guests, who all appeared to have enjoyed themselves; their warm congratulations, kudos and applause showed their appreciation of a job well done.
PLEASE SAVE THIS DATE: 4/9/2011 FOR OUR SECOND ANNUAL FUNDRAISER DINNER
In collaboration with
Victor Y. See Yuen and Friends in Support of the Arts
CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND
IT'S
Annual Fund Raiser Dinner
To be held at
The Ailey Studios
The Joan Weill Center for Dance
Saturday April 9th, 2011 8:00pm until 12:00am
405 West 55th Street at 9thAvenue NYC
The program will include: Dinner, Entertainment, Honoree Awards, a Silent Auction & a Raffle Drawing with 1st prize of $150, 2nd $100 & 3rd $50.
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Liberata Dance Theatre’s Activities from June 2009-June 2010 Last board meeting/party held before members left for their summer break.
Annual summer trip to Curacao for Myrena and Sam where they collaborated with the sister company, Liberata Dance Theatre Curacao Connection Foundation (LDTCC). As customary, dance classes were taught by Myrena and Laura Quast, actress/director helped with the dramatization of KONSTRUKSHON II. The ages of the participants (about twenty) ranged from 7 to 67 who happened to be a granddaughter and grandmother.
Space for the classes and rehearsals was again donated by Kolegio Chaya Willems, a neighborhood elementary school. Also, we were fortunate again to have the theater, Sentro Kultural Korsou (Cultural Center Curacao) donated as long as we made a small contribution to the theater. An updated version of KONSTRUKSHON (with some of the region and the world’s current events) was presented. We named it KONSTRUKSHON II. In addition, a poem honoring the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson was presented, praising his contributions to the world. The performance was well attended and a positive article appeared in one of the local newspapers . Sam filmed the event.
Myrena also collaborated with ‘Skol Nobo’ (New School) and was asked to work with about fifteen young people, ages 8 to mid 20’s. This school does wonderful work by teaching young people to become dynamic future leaders. The theme of our presentation was TULA, one of the main leaders of the biggest slave rebellion in Curacao, August 17, 1795. Myrena prepared a 15 minutes presentation of dance, poetry, music and a work written inspired by the strong qualities Tula possessed. The performers delivered the work with conviction and dynamism. The event took place in Luna Blou, a theatre in downtown Otrabanda (part of the capital of Curacao).
One of preparatory high schools, ‘Kolegio Omega’, invited Myrena to teach dance for two days during their introduction week (of the new school year). She used as themes positive qualities to become a successful student and responsible citizen.
The Artistic Director of the Caribbean Dance Theater Sandra Leonora, discussed with Myrena a possible collaboration for summer 2010; a multi-disciplinary work appreciating and respecting the four nature elements in respect to the island of Curacao. We visited different possible sites we plan to use for filming the piece.All by all another busy summer for some LDT members collaborating with LDTCC and other groups in Curacao.
In October 2009, planning for LDT’s First Annual “LUCY” Award Ceremony and Fundraiser Event was discussed. We decided on the WHOLE NAME the Alvin Ailey Dance Studio at The Joan Weill Center for Dance for February 6, 2010. Separate meetings were held and committees formed between October and February 2010 to accomplish the multiple task to make our event a success. Yesima Sherrod joined LDT as an advisor and offered some great suggestions to help make the event more successful.
(Photo right by: C. Stossel 2/06/10)
depicts: Myrena Sint Jago, Yesima and her SisterJivani Sherrod at the Fundraiser
Myrena started to rehearse the dances and poem “LUCY=ALL OF US”, she wrote; (Lucy as the remains of the first woman found in Africa and the connection of all to that continent as life started there) for the Fundraiser Event. at the end of December, our annual Holiday celebration was held on West 34 Street and the members enjoyed themselves with food, drinks and gifts.
In January 2010 a few members of LDT met with Fred Johnson, Artistic Director of Intersections and the Director of ART THREAD to discuss a possible collaboration with his company (ART THREAD). LDT dancers will interpret the art created by children with different challenges by improvising the interpretation; the possible collaboration sounded very promising and healing.
February 6, 2010: our hard work paid off and the event was successful.
(Photos by: C. Stossel 2/06/10)
Catering by:Dee's Delights & Mistress of Ceremonies: Carrie See Yuen
We honored five people who were either active for decades in the field of performing arts and community service. They are the following;
Richard Gonzalez, dancer and Afro-Caribbean dance instructor,(Photo by: C. Stossel 2/06/10)
Luis Caballero, writer, actor, director and professor;
Luis, center with Sam Sherrod & Carrie See Yuen (Photo by: C. Stossel 2/06/10)
Lynne Hayden-Findlay, opera singer, co-founder Chelsea Opera and teacher;
Sam, Carrie & Lynne (Photo by: C. Stossel 2/06/10)
Fred Johnson, instructor, ……….. and Artistic Director Intersections,
Sam, Fred & Carrie (Photo by: C. Stossel 2/06/10)
and Ingrid Charles, President of the Antillean /Aruban
Cultural Affairs Association, Inc. (AACAA).
(Photo by: C. Stossel 2/06/10)
Ingrid accepted the award for the AACAA that does wonderful programs for the youth and adults in the community, including annual scholarship luncheons, family days, Black History Month Celebrations . There was great food provided by Dee’s Delight. Entertainment was provided by LDT’s performers, dancers, Chelsea McLaughlin, Coreen Robledo, Lily Burd, actress Dianne Dixon; pianist Andy Monroe and Kevin Garcia, percussionists, Ron McBee and Dillan Greene, singer Autumn Greene and Myrena.
Fred Johnson, Artistic Director of Intersections became an advisor for LDT and we plan to collaborate on some future collaborations.
On March 6, Myrena was invited to participate by Fred Johnson to participate in his program “Melodies as Conversations”. Three more artists participated and together with LDT dancer Coreen Robledo, Myrena recited and danced on her poem “LIBERATA”, a poem honoring her late mother Julieta Liberata Sint Jago, as it was International Women’s Month celebration.
On March 22, Caroline Edwards, teacher, performer and Luis Caballero, actor, director, professor became the latest two board members. Carol-lyn Simon, graduate student, is also interested in joining us a board member and will come on board during the next meeting.
On May 8, Myrena Sint Jago with Carrie See Yuen danced at a mother Day’s Luncheon in the Bronx. Victor See Yuen and Fred Johnson accompanied them with percussions.
LDT is working on a proposal with the Children Art Carnival to develop a program helping adolescents gain job skills through improving body movements, language: a year long program in 8 week sessions.
On May 22, Myrena, together with Coreen Robledo and Frank West (guest LDT), dancer of Myrena’s scholarship days at the School of Alvin Ailey Dance Theater will perform in the Celebrating Diversity event in the beautiful Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem. This was a whole day event with a wide range of multi-dicliplinary performers, speakers and award ceremonies.
On June 6, a computer training conducted by Carl Reid, one of LDT's Advisers took place at Board member Carrie See Yuen's home in The Bronx.
On June 10, Myrena was invited to participate in the Caribbean Heritage Month Celebration at City Hall.She read parts of different sections of her work. She celebrated the beauty of her island of upbringing Curacao, the different role models, and a poem “To Haiti”
June 21 LDT’s mid-year party was held before everyone leaves for summer. It was held at Hanna Favelukes’ apartment.WE HAD GREAT FUN with food, snack and laughter.
On June 27, as part of another Caribbean Heritage Month Celebration, Myrena performed with three dancers from the Antillean Dance Company. We did two dances (musicof Ced Ride and Doble RR) and the poem “To Haiti”. The choreography and poetry by Myrena. The event was held at the Tropical Paradise Ballroom in Brooklyn. It was a fundraiser dinner for Yvette D. Clarke, Congress woman and awards were given to the doctors who were the first responders to the crisis in Haiti, Different politicians attended the event including US senator Kirsten Gillibrand. The doctors were called“Heroes For Haiti “
Also present were Arthur Kibbelaar, Consul for Press and Cultural Affairs, Kingdom of the Netherlands, pictured with Myrena below left; and Jacqueline Kolmes, Cruises Inc. pictured right with Samuel Sherrod, Secretary/Treasurer LDT, Inc. Jacqueline is one of Myrena's dance acquaintances from years ago and now operates her own travel business in New York City.
