Interview at the UWI Today newspaper (2024)
Ms Paul said the workshop's mission was to reconnect people with their local and diasporic cultures through dance, countering trends dominated by foreign styles. The esteemed instructors provided comprehensive training, encompassing theoretical understanding, practical skills, and performance techniques to uphold authenticity.
Interview at the News Day newspaper (2024)
Deboleena Paul, co-ordinator and lecturer at the dance unit, said diverse dance forms such as bélé, limbo, bongo, quadrille, kolattam, and nation dance will be explored, reflecting the rich cultural tapestry of the region.
Interview at the UWI Today newspaper (2023)
Deboleena Paul is an accomplished performer and choreographer – that is an understatement. Paul is a master and scholar of Indian dance, holding three master’s degrees. She has worked as a performer and choreographer across more than 200 stages for audiences in India, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and the USA.
CHEENEE (2022)
A Story of Arrival, Experience and Culture.
Two lecturers from UWI St Augustine have been working on a documentary to record and investigate the culture and ethnography of the indentured Indians and their descendants. Cheenee, the film, includes interviews with people across the country to learn about the East Indian experience using food, dance, song, architecture, history and movement.
(Rachel Espinet and Joel Henry)
UWI dancers triumph over remote learning (2021)
From primary to tertiary, tutors have had to find creative ways to engage students and achieve curriculum goals, while still trying to maintain as normal a life as possible across the screens.
(Newsday Reporter 25 June 2021)
Dance students find success in the pandemic (2021)
Academics is very important to dance education because it gives you the purpose behind movements, the effect of movement on the body, and even history.” A master and scholar of Indian dance from South Asia, Paul has studied dance since her early childhood and came to the Caribbean as a diplomat and performer with the High Commission of India. Her love of the region caused her to decide to stay and apply for a job at The UWI.
(Guardian Reporter 21 June 2021)
Friday Feel Good Story (2021)
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, students of UWI St. Augustine Dance Unit continue to overcome challenges and find success.
The university says this has been the experience of persons like Danielle Ryan, now in her final year of pursing a bachelor’s degree and Jerome Tank Kwok, who aims to be a lecturer after graduation.
(103.1FM News Room 18 June 2021)
DCFA students learn the arts of India (2020)
“When I saw Ms Deboleena’s choreography I knew to myself I wanted to see how much I could learn in Indian dance,” says Tamara, who is from Mayaro..
Dance students learn Caribbean dance, ballet technique, modern dance, dance history and Indian dance.
(Joel Henry)