Four new mentors and protégés in the Rolex mentorship program
06/02/2018.
Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative
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DANCE.- Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, famed for her passion to communicate ideas, emotions and stories, and her strong theatrical sensibility, has chosen as her protégée Khoudia Touré, 31, from Senegal, a pioneer in urban street dance. Touré has helped enrich African dance through her work as a dancer and choreographer with her hip-hop dance-based company.
LITERATURE.- New York-based writer, essayist and journalist Colm Tóibín has depicted his native Ireland and the experience of exile in his much - acclaimed novels; he will mentor Colin Barrett, 35, also from Ireland, whose first collection of short stories, Young Skins, received three major prizes in 2014 in the UK and Ireland.
MUSIC.- Indian musician Zakir Hussain – widely viewed as the world’s greatest tabla player, this composer, actor and producer will mentor Marcus Gilmore, 31, a New York jazz musician and startlingly innovative young drummer.
In 2020 - 2021 the programme will address film, theatre, visual arts and a variable eighth mentorship. In this expansion of the programme, the variable mentorship will take place in other fields of the arts; it will be announced in 2020.