Friday, 20 July 2007
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Friday, 11 May 2007
Boscoe Holder Rest In Peace
The older brother of famous American film actor Geoffrey Holder, Boscoe was exposed to the piano at a very young age. He began his professional career playing music, but turned to painting and dancing as a teenager. Both his dancing interpretations and his paintings reflected the Afro-Caribbean experience, and he hosted his first art exhibition in 1937. During the 1940s, he had his own radio show "Piano Ramblings" on the Armed Forces radio station, and formed his own dance troupe, Boscoe Holder Dancers.
In 1946, he went to New York, USA, where he taught at the Katherine Dunham School and exhibited his paintings. He returned to Trinidad in 1948 but left for England in 1950 to pursue a career as a dancer. He formed the dance company Boscoe Holder and His Caribbean Dancers and appeared on British television in "Bal Creole."
He performed at popular clubs and theatres in England (London), France (Paris, Nice), Monaco (Monte Carlo), and Belgium (Ostend), where he had the privelege of performing with the renown dancer, Josephine Baker.
While based in England, he continued to develop his skills as a painter and held impromptu exhibits on his dancing tours, briefly returning to Trinidad from 1961 to 1962.
He returned home for good in 1970, made a name for himself as a painter with exhibits throughout the Caribbean, and later opened his studio at his home on Woodford Street in Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain
In 1946, he went to New York, USA, where he taught at the Katherine Dunham School and exhibited his paintings. He returned to Trinidad in 1948 but left for England in 1950 to pursue a career as a dancer. He formed the dance company Boscoe Holder and His Caribbean Dancers and appeared on British television in "Bal Creole."
He performed at popular clubs and theatres in England (London), France (Paris, Nice), Monaco (Monte Carlo), and Belgium (Ostend), where he had the privelege of performing with the renown dancer, Josephine Baker.
While based in England, he continued to develop his skills as a painter and held impromptu exhibits on his dancing tours, briefly returning to Trinidad from 1961 to 1962.
He returned home for good in 1970, made a name for himself as a painter with exhibits throughout the Caribbean, and later opened his studio at his home on Woodford Street in Woodbrook, Port-of-Spain
Vs Naipaul
When I arrived in London I saw a program late at night called hard talk and it featured Vs Naipaul...
A seemingly sad old man ... or maybe tired? I waited for him to mention something that would inspire me to create something fantatastic here in London.
The host asked him ...what sort of influence has your background had on your writing ... you came from Trinidad...
To my astonishment he said trinidad was a long time ago? The navel string semed to have been broken and buried a long time for mr Naipaul.
Over time we have watched different goverments suck up to our external "citizens", praise and applaud them for their achievements but do we have to parade them everywhere for what looks obviously like political gain?
As we get older different things become important ....life......home ...identity and in Mr Naipaul's case, legacy as he is rumoured to be ill.
So we gave him citizenship....and he accepted happily and has come home maybe for one last time?
Mammy always said "all skinteeth is not smile" and many handshakes and almost $2,000,000 tt later we feel dissapointed in a man who is a child of our soil but has'nt really come home in person or in heart for a long time.
The man is a nobel prize winner, just send him a medal and call that george. He cant relate to the curiousity of young children and shouldnt be asked to pretend that he is enjoying it.
As he himself said Trinidad is a long time ago, so give him a house or something and let him fade away. In time all we will remember is he won a nobel prize and that will be good enough to inspire others.
A seemingly sad old man ... or maybe tired? I waited for him to mention something that would inspire me to create something fantatastic here in London.
The host asked him ...what sort of influence has your background had on your writing ... you came from Trinidad...
To my astonishment he said trinidad was a long time ago? The navel string semed to have been broken and buried a long time for mr Naipaul.
Over time we have watched different goverments suck up to our external "citizens", praise and applaud them for their achievements but do we have to parade them everywhere for what looks obviously like political gain?
As we get older different things become important ....life......home ...identity and in Mr Naipaul's case, legacy as he is rumoured to be ill.
So we gave him citizenship....and he accepted happily and has come home maybe for one last time?
Mammy always said "all skinteeth is not smile" and many handshakes and almost $2,000,000 tt later we feel dissapointed in a man who is a child of our soil but has'nt really come home in person or in heart for a long time.
The man is a nobel prize winner, just send him a medal and call that george. He cant relate to the curiousity of young children and shouldnt be asked to pretend that he is enjoying it.
As he himself said Trinidad is a long time ago, so give him a house or something and let him fade away. In time all we will remember is he won a nobel prize and that will be good enough to inspire others.
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