JamCoders at the National Dance Theatre Company’s 63rd Season Of Dance
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National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC) began its 63rd season on July 18 at the Little Theatre in Kingston with a benefit performance for the JamCoders Summer Camp. The free, four-week residential programme, held annually at The University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona’s Department of Computing, equips high school students with vital coding skills, modelled after AddisCoder Inc, a programme founded in Ethopia. The JamCoders Summer Camp is made possible with the support of reggae artiste Chronixx. The NDTC’s season of dance continues through August 10.
Saturday Social provides highlights.
Pausing for a photo-op before the start of the show were NDTC chairperson Milton Samuda (left); NDTC Deputy Chair Hilary Phillips; Fitzroy Ferguson (second right), marketing manager of Old McDonald Farms; and Dr Daniel Fokum, head of the department of computing at The University of the West Indies and JamCoders co-chair. Photos: Fitzroy Ferguson and Gianna Lewis
Sharing the frame after the show were (from left) students Gianna Lewis, Thrinai Smart, Sitota Brissett, Tsenaya Lewis, Amelia Smith and Anthonique Colquhoun.
Professor Emeritus Rupert Lewis and his wife Professor Emerita Maureen Warner-Lewis (centre), both retirees of The University of the West Indies, celebrated opening night with their daughter-in-law Klao Bell-Lewis, patron of the evening’s benefit in honour of JamCoders.
