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- Born in 1933 in the small town of Falmouth, on Jamaica's north coast, Ralston Milton Nettleford — best known by his nickname Rex — was a Rhodes Scholar, a founder of the celebrated Jamaica National Dance Theatre Company, a cultural advisor to three Jamaican prime ministers, and a member of faculty at the University of the West Indies, where he rose to the position of vice chancellor.
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Ralston Milton "Rex" Nettleford OM FIJ OCC (3 February 1933 – 2 February 2010) was a Jamaican scholar, social critic, choreographer, and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), the leading research university in the Commonwealth Caribbean.
Feb 17, 2010 · Rex Nettleford, a Jamaican scholar, educator and choreographer who devoted his life to studying postcolonial Caribbean culture and in the process helped shape it, died in Washington on...
Feb 5, 2023 · Playing a significant role in helping to shape Jamaican culture, the visionary, Rhodes Scholar, professor, vice chancellor, social critic, dancer, choreographer, co-founder, and artistic director of the National Dance and Theatre Company (NDTC) seemed to be before his time, pushing much-needed boundaries, mindsets, and the arts forward.
Jun 19, 2014 · In the wake of Jamaica’s independence, August 6, 1962, Rex Nettleford and Eddy Thomas founded a company of unpaid dancers, musicians, designers, and technicians who were to become the cultural ambassadors of not only Jamaica, but also the Caribbean.
Feb 2, 2010 · Professor the Honourable Ralston Milton Nettleford, better known as Rex Nettleford, was a national patriot, cultural ambassador, international scholar, dancer, choreographer, orator and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies.
REX NETTLEFORD, was a well-known Caribbean scholar, trade union educator, social and cultural historian and political analyst. A former Rhodes Scholar, he was Vice Chancellor Emeritus at The University of the West Indies, Jamaica.
Jun 24, 2017 · Nettleford was a Caribbean man, with strong ties to the trade union movement, politics, and his beloved University of the West Indies — which he served in several roles, including vice...
