TODAY we introduce to you two lovely danseuses from our National Dance Company.

They are Tecona Williams and Marrella Bennnett, both lovers of the modern idiom, and their even stature often throws them together in striking pas de deux.
Williams is a care-giver at Tender Heart Day Care in Kingston and has been dancing ever since she can remember. She loves Dance Hall music and has been in the company for the past seven years. As a performer, she takes to the stage brimming with confidence. No butterflies in the stomach for this one. She finds modern dance a perfect vehicle for her to express her inner feelings. The idiom gives her a greater freedom to improvise, much more than say the ethnic or classical forms allow.
As for Bennett, she has sat Performing Arts examinations at CXC, and last year she came third in Dance in the Caribbean Region. For this she performed a folk dance.
She teaches Mathematics and Integrated Science at the Richard Ishmael School, and her favourite music covers jazz, hip-hop and R&B.
Like Williams, she is confident on stage, though she expresses a preference for performing on the stage she refers as her ‘home ground’, the stage at the National Cultural Centre.
She is always apprehensive when she dances elsewhere, be it at the Georgetown Club or the University of Guyana’s Tain Campus or the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in the capital city.
Asked about a memorable on stage moment in her career so far, she recalls an Indian dance at the Cultural Centre, splendid in an all red shalwar, and the curtain going up with her sitting on the floor.
It was an exhilarating choreography and at the end of it all she was glowing with a sense of accomplishment.
You will see Welcome and Bennett at the Company’s annual performance at the National Cultural centre of July 5.
Written By Raschid Osman