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Who Is Oniel Pryce?
Who Is Oniel Pryce?
Who Is Oniel Pryce?
when i dance all my fears become nothing but a mirage, new hope is reafrmed. I satisfy my body's insatiable appetite, through responding to the rhythmic echos in my bone. I WILL DANCE FOREVER. Oniel Pryce, 2003
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ONIEL
WHO
IS
ONIEL
PRYCE? Oniel
Pryce
embodies
the
next
genera@on
of
great
choreographers
emerging
from
the
Caribbean.
Former
company
member
with
the
Na@onal
Dance
Theatre
Company
of
Jamaica
(NDTC)
and
freelance
dancer with
several
project
based
companies
across
the
UK
including
Movement
Angol,
Biggerthanme
Produc@ons
and State
of
Emergency,
Oniels
career
both
as
dancer
and
choreographer
has
been
one
guided
by
self
discovery
and
exhaus@ng
possibili@es
in
movement.
I
found
early
on
that
crea1ng
was
my
passion
as
opposed
to
being
a
performer
-
if
a
work
didnt
engage
me
holis1cally
I
was
not
able
to
perform
it
to
the
best
of
my
ability
...
being
a
performer
means
that
you
are
willing
to
engage
in
anything
that
is
thrown
at
you.
The
lessons
I
have
learnt
from
being
a
performer
is
now
an
important
part
of
how
I
now
see
and
make
works
His
choreographic
accomplishments
include
crea@ng
works
for
major
arts
projects
and
dance
companies
including:
Propsobili*es,
The
Company
Dance
Theatre
(Jamaica) Un*tled,
Dance
Theatre
Xaymaca
(Jamaica)
Certain
Today
Unborn
Tomorrows,
Na*onal
Dance
Theatre
Company
of
Jamaica
-
NDTC
(Jamaica) Barre
Talk,
Na*onal
Dance
Theatre
Company
of
Jamaica
-
NDTC
(Jamaica) Ashe
-
Inner
Mappings,
Independent
dance
produc*on
(Jamaica) BiIer
Sweet
Melodies
of
Glass
&
Sweet
Scented
Roses,
University
Dance
Society
(Jamaica) Traces
of
Home,
Connec*ng
Vibes
-
Irie
Dance
Theatre
(UK) Of
God,
Dance
and
Religion,
Trinity
Laban
(UK) The
Body
Remembers
and
breaks
the
silence,
Trinity
Laban
(UK) Un*tled,
Cornwall
Youth
Dance
Company
(UK) Speaks
Like
a
River,
ADAD
(UK) Oniel
holds
a
Diploma
in
Dance
Educa@on
from
The
Edna
Manley
College
of
the
Visual
and
Performing
Arts,
a
Bachelor
of
Fine
Arts
in
Dance
from
the
State
University
of
New
York
College
at
Brockport,
and
he
is
one
of
only
two
Jamaicans
who
holds
a
Masters
of
Arts
in
Choreography
from
Trinity
Laban.
While
living
in
the
UK,
Pryce
taught
dance
in
several
primary
and
high
schools
and
was
faculty
member
at
Irie
Dance
Theatre
where
he
lectured
in
Caribbean
Dance
Studies
and
Performance.
He
is
currently
a
full
@me
lecturer
at
the
Edna
Manley
College
School
of
Dance
in
Jamaica
in
several
areas
including
Repertory
and
Performance/Design
for
Dance,
Dance
History
and
Modern Dance.
He
is
Ar@s@c
Director
of
Propel
Dance
Collec@ve,
a
newly
formed
graduate
company
of
the
College.
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THE PRYCE REPERTOIRE DIFFERENCE Pryce uses ABSTRACT IDEAS TO REPRESENT REAL LIFE EVENTS. In his piece, LeIer from Angola, described by arts cri@cs as an insigh\ul look into bondage he found inspira@on in an image of an Angolan woman bounded in chains to create an emo@onal and poignant piece that spoke to the Angolan reality of being the country with the highest rates of land mine injuries per capita. In Regarding the Pain of Others, which emerged out of his Danceworks, Rep and Design for Dance course at Edna Manley College he spoke to the devasta@on of the 7.0 earthquake that struck Hai@. Although not experiencing the destruc@on and emo@onal trauma personally he pulled on real life events using s@mulus ideas to push dancers to a place inside themselves where they could not only relate but create movement which superimposed deep seated emo@ons that allowed them to feel what Hai@ans were possibly feeling on that day. As a choreographer he believes in His choreographic process is not to evolve, to be created in real involved. His use of PROPS, transforming a intended for. Utopia & space. the idea of WORKING IN THE PROCESS OF THE PRESENT. preplanned so he is open to allowing the work to unfold @me, in the space, based on the energy of everyone
is also unique in the sense that he has been successful at prop into something other than what it was originally Barre Talk, for example, was born out of trying to create a experience transcending @me
You can stand on it, walk on it, use the nega@ve space within the barre
For Oniel, the barre became eortless with seamless Essen@ally, his use of this
a regular dance oor, on which movement could be make to seem transi@ons. propresulted in an enhancement of the dance space.
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