Videodance section of 'FreshWater' by choreographer and dancer, Makeda Thomas. Video by Panu Kari. For more info, visit www.makedathomas.org ‘Fresh Water’ takes its title from the Trinidadian term for someone who talks, dresses or acts American without having gone overseas (crossing salt water). The term also serves to remind someone who may have indeed gone overseas that they are still Caribbean. ‘Fresh Water’ is being created in the midst of returning home to Trinidad after 20 years living abroad. It is, therefore, a deeply personal work - set in the stage of a mystical, multilayered culture of compelling depth of breadth and scope. ‘Fresh Water’ is a dance between Memory and Reality. It is a work about family, legacy and continuity; tradition and heritage; about the fragility of life and the fragility of culture.The everyday reality of Trinidad is a cultural stream that fuses myth and fact, reason and irrationality, dream and vigil. I recall...