Discover Trinidad & Tobago 2016 — 25th Anniversary Edition

Theatre & dance
With several commercial, university, and community theatre companies and performance
venues, options vary from original plays to popular farces, lavish song and dance musicals
(and operas), or intimate solo shows and dramas. There is usually at least one production
running on any given weekend, and sometimes there’s one at every major auditorium in
the country. Both foreign works (or adaptations of them) and local works are staged.
The local dance scene spans regional folk dance (the most popular being the indigenous
limbo, bongo, and bele), ballet, jazz, modern, Indian classical, and styles from around the
world. Dance schools and semi-professional companies present high-quality shows yearround,
while smaller troupes present experimental multi-media productions.
A soloist with the Noble Douglas Dance Company (NDDC) in action.
Photo by Maria Nunes
Where to look
Popular venues for theatre,
dance and some music
shows include the Queen’s
Hall (the island’s premier
performance space), Central
Bank Auditorium, Little
Carib Theatre, and Trinidad
Theatre Workshop (all in
Port of Spain); CLR James
Auditorium and University
of the West Indies (UWI)
in the east; and Naparima
Bowl and SAPA (the southern
campus of the Academy
for the Performing Arts) in
San Fernando.
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