No Where/NoW Here
A Percussion and Dance Celebration
An ODD SOCKS Production
FEATURING
TONY AWARD WINNING ACTRESS/DIRECTOR
TRAZANA BEVERLEY
ACTRESS CHOREOGRAPHER
BEVERLEY PRENTICE
PERCUSSIONIST
AHMONDYLLA BEST
CONCEIVED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY
BEVERLEY PRENTICE
WRITTEN BY
TRAZANA BEVERLEY AND MORLEY KAMEN
DIRECTED BY
TRAZANA BEVERLEY
PRODUCED FOR BREAKING BARRIERS BY
WILL ROSE
THROUGH MOVEMENT, TEXT AND MUSIC,
CHOREOGRAPHER/DANCER/ACTRESS, BEVERLEY PRENTICE;
DIRECTOR/WRITER/TONY AWARD WINNING ACTRESS, TRAZANA BEVERLEY;
COMPOSER/MUSICIAN, AHMONDYLLA BEST,
EXPLORE THE MOTIVATION OF LIFE CHOICES,
WHICH STEM FROM FEAR,
ANGER AND FRUSTRATION.
WHILE SEEKING TO RE-MEMBER,
RE-CONNECT
AND KNOW THAT THE PEACE/GOD,
THAT SEEMS TO BE No Where,
HAS BEEN,
IS,
AND ALWAYS WILL BE
NoW Here.
Ahmondella Best is a percussionist, flautist, vocalist and composer. A graduate of SUNYs Fashion Institute of Technology where she earned a degree in Jewelry Design, Ms. Best most recently conceived and co-produced the concert production of Kinswoman at Dance Theatre Work in New York City, which incorporated concepts involved in rites of passage for teenage girls. She has also collaborated with choreographer Sandra Burton and actress Trazana Beverley on her second co-production of Woglebedoe performed at Dance Theatre Work and the Lasell Theater.
Trazana Beverley was born in Baltimore, Maryland and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater and Acting from New York University. Although an actress she is also recognized for her highly refined skills as a director, writer, singer and acting teacher. In 1976 she received a Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf, the revival of which is now celebrating its 20th anniversary. Ms. Beverley has taught Acting as a member of the faculty at New York University School for the Arts and City College. Recently she directed Kinswoman by Ahmondylla Best at the Dance Theatre Workshop.
Beverley Prentice was born and raised in Cardiff, Wales, of West Indian parentage. She began her performing career in dance at the highly prestigious Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London. Fusing movement and acting, she has worked since 1993 with Tony Award Winning Trazana Beverley at the Actors Center of New York. Ms. Prentice has appeared Off Broadway in The Changeling, directed by Robert Woodruff. Most recently she has worked with Ms. Beverley as Portia in Julius Caesar.
Will Rose
(Actor, Teacher) earned a B.F.A. from New York University School of the Arts and attended New York University Graduate Film School. Mr. Roses most recent stage credit Song of Sad Young Men, Aaron Davis Hall, NYC and Winston Salem, NC. His Off-Broadway credits include Richard the II, The Blacks, The Giants of the MT. His film credits include The Money Pit, Tootsie, Claudine and Brewsters Millions. His TV credits include As the World Turns, Guiding Light, Another World, Kojak, and The Equalizer. Will has toured N.Y.C. as stage manager for the Dance Mobile that featured the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, the Garth Fagan Dance Company, and the Chuck Davis African Dance Company. His producing credit includes the African Dance Festival at the Symphony Space, N.Y.C., which featured Olatunje and the Chuck Davis African Dance Company. Currently Mr. Rose teaches speech in the Department of English and Modern Languages at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.
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