Professional dancer Sade Bully, daughter of acclaimed artist Alwin Bully and Cultural Administrator Anita Bully, will teach a five-day intensive dance workshop during her visit back home for the holidays.
Sade will conduct the workshop in conjunction with Mr. Momo Sanno, himself an accomplished dancer who has performed with leading companies in Europe and America.
The workshop is produced by Kaz Kweyol Productions under the auspices of the Dominica Institute of Fine Arts DIFA and the Old Mill Cultural Center Dance Studio. It will run from January 2-6, 2017 in three age groups: Ages 5-10yrs; 10-19yrs and 20+ yrs.
Sade is a star dancer and soloist with the internationally renowned Garth Fagan Dance of New York. Garth Fagan is the Jamaican born, Tony Award winning choreographer of the Broadway mega-hit, The Lion King.
Sade started dancing at age three in Dominica with Jacinta David’s Childrens’ Dance Classes before her family migrated to Jamaica in 1989. Her parents immediately enrolled her in the Jamaica School of Dance at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts where she learnt the basics of ballet and modern dance under the guidance of lead dancers of the Jamaica National Dance Theatre Company.
At age 9, she moved to the Tony Wilson School of Modern Dance and then to their senior section – The Company Dance Theatre where she was a lead dancer.
Throughout that period she excelled in her academic subjects, becoming Head Girl at Campion College, one of Jamaica’s most accomplished schools, eventually winning a full scholarship to study medicine at the UWI Mona Campus, where she graduated with honours in Medicine and surgery, a distinction in Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Allan Berry Prize for Internal Medicine and was Valedictorian of the Medical Class of 2008.
The day after she completed her internship, she was on a plane to New York where she enrolled in the Alvin Ailey School of Dance for two years, eventually performing with the company at the end of her training.
Since then she has been a star performer with Garth Fagan Dance based in Rochester, N.Y.
When not rehearsing and performing, Sade teaches “Fagan Technique” at the Garth Fagan Dance School, and Modern Dance and Aerobics at the Eugenio Maria De Hostos Charter School. She also works with The Farash Foundation which targets inner city youth and provides them with free, weekly dance classes.
For her dancing Sade has received critical acclaim in The New York Times, NY; The Los Angeles Times, CA; The Daily Gazette, NY; The Rochester City Newspaper, NY; The Fjord Review, CA, and Arts Meme, CA. Most recently she was nominated for a Bessie Award (Dance Oscar) and the Princess Grace of Monaco Award for Excellence.
Persons interested in attending the workshop can call 276-7584 for details.
ImpressiveI Its amazing how people of Dominica achieve so much more than one can imagine when one gets the right exposure.
Very impressive. And well accomplished. Keep it up!
Simply beautiful …………
What a beautiful lady. legs.
An incredibly talented family and an inspiration to all connected to the arts in Dominica.
WELCOME back home, Miss Bully. You are an achiever of excellence. Look forward to your dance classes. Bless you.