Jamie J. Philbert

Interdisciplinary artist, martial artist/bois woman, educator, scholar, published writer, curator, and Caribbean award nominated/locally winning filmmaker, Jamie J. Philbert is a native of Trinidad and Tobago, brought up in Brooklyn, New York. Upon graduating from Fiorello H. La Guardia High School for Music, Art and the Performing Arts, she founded Echoes Dance Company (1999) in New York City. Since then, her artistic and curatorial work has been presented in the U.S. Europe and the Caribbean. Jamie is the founder of Art On Purpose and the Philbert-Kalinda Technique for dance and performance which is co-created with Rondel Benjamin, Founder of Bois Academy of Trinidad and Tobago and the transitioned legendary bois man, King David Matthew Brown. While serving as the Pointer of Bois Academy of Trinidad and Tobago since 2019, Jamie has been a recurring guest teaching artist for Norwegian Theatre Academy and Wayne State University’s Theatre and Dance Department. July 2023 will bear a second international installation of her recent artistic/scholarly work, ‘BOUND’, a choreo-speculative ethnographic study on the life and folklore of Gang Gang Sarah. Jamie will complete her MA in Ethnochoreology at the University of Limerick, August 2023. Jamie believes art’s power to heal and create dynamic change. Her movements/magic are dedicated to the legacy of her transitioned parents, Dennis and Veronica Philbert.

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