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RTW presents Oriki Omi Oddara
Award Winning & Exciting
 Afro-Cuban Dance Company
at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Theatre w 46th St New York City
March, 2007

Senator Hillary Clinton
 greets  RTW Artistic Associates
Rick Montalvo, left, and
     Hank Wagner, right, at reception
 in New York City

Students at PS752Q
Join in an Indian Pow Wow
and Dance  to the Beat
of Native American
Drums & Chants

Culturally-Specific Arts Programs

Native-American Arts and Crafts

Rick Montalvo is a Cacike (Chief) of Yukayeke Guajataka (the Village of the Gourd - A Taino Community) and a founding member of both the AIT (Alliance of Indigenous Taino) and the Congress of Taino Tribal Government. He is also a member of the Native American Warrior Society, Blackhawk Band.

Rick will take your students on a journey through a series of workshops where young people can discover the artistry, culture and Pre-Colombian history of the Taino People, a Native American Caribbean Culture. Some examples:

As part of a an Arts Partnership Program, a series of workshops might culminate in an auditorium performance with music, dance and history recital – an Indian “Pow Wow”. All materials used or consumed in the workshops are at additional cost. A budget will be provided based on the structure of the program and the actual class size(s) anticipated.                                                                                                                       

African Drums and Other Instruments

Percussionist Kobla Mensa Dente will take your students on a journey to Africa.

Using the “talking drum” to discover some of the native chants, music and instruments of Africa, Kobla Dente will explain their construction and the history and cultural background (how they came to be) of various traditional African instruments.

While on this musical journey, your students will learn various folksongs, or “drum songs”, as Kobla refers to them, and will participate by playing basic rhythms on a variety of drums, bells, gourds, and bamboo instruments.

As part of a an Arts Partnership Program, these workshops might culminate in a full group performance piece, suitable for auditorium or assembly presentation.

Other Culturally-Specific Arts Programs offered by INC

As a full service arts organization, InCollaboration Incorporated, under the Readers Theatre Workshop Presents umbrella program, can provide your school or organization with other cultural arts programs such as Spanish Dance, Mexican Folklorico, Chinese Acrobats, Japanese Drums, and all forms of the performing and visual arts disciplines as typified by the varied examples in this catalog.  We can help you to plan, budget and organize your program as well as assist in the preparatory planning and learning experience, including a “Meet the Artist” ancillary workshop to accompany the artistic presentation or as part of a longer term Arts Partnership Program. Consult your local Company Associate or e-mail us at theinbox@readers.org to arrange a consultation.

InCollaboration Inc. programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.
We also acknowledge the continuing and invaluable support provided by
The New York City Council, Council Members Eric Gioia and Peter Vallone, Speaker Christine Quinn, the entire Queens Delegation and Queens Borough President Helen Marshall; The Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the New York State Music Fund, Con Edison, JPMorganChase, the Carnegie Corporation and the Morgan Stanley Group of Companies.

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