The 28th annual sunrise act of worship by the National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC) will take place tomorrow morning at The Little Theatre, Tom Redcam Avenue. The event, which begins at 5:45 a.m., promises a feast of music and movement featuring the dancers, singers and musicians of the world-renowned NDTC.

The wide-ranging music will render works composed and arranged by a number of local and foreign composers and arrangers, starting with the NDTC's musical director Marjorie Whylie's Mass in A, while Noel Dexter's Psalm 150 will again bring the event to a close.

Graham Hendricks and David Clydesdale are responsible for the singers' Amazing Love and Crown Him, while reggae composer Papa San provides the melody for Hold Fast, sung by soloist Earl Brown. Joining him for the Easter event are sopranos Carole Reid, Faith Livingstone and Jhana Williams, contraltos Dulcie Bogues and Helen Christian, basses Leighton Jones and Heston Boothe and tenor Howard Cooper.

The choreographers turn to an equally wide range of music for works such as Revival Time to the arrangement and orchestration of Chalice arranged by the famous African American musician of Jamaican ancestry, Don Shirley. The Clive Thompson suite of solos is done to the music of John Williams and Peye Rosser. Keita Marie Chamberlain's duet, Unconditional Love will be done to Kirk Franklin's Now Behold the Lamb.

Support

The dancers, headed by Kerry-Ann Henry and Marlon Simms, the dance captain, will receive support from Chamberlain, Tamara Noel, Stefanie Thomas, Tovah-Marie Bembridge, Mark Phinn, Kevin Moore, Allatunje Connell, Stephanie Belnavis, Terry-Ann Denison, Heidi-Ann Hanson, Orlando Barnett, Christina Gonzales and Philip Earle.

The musicians are Minky Jefferson (assistant musical director), Kamau Khalfani (flute), Wigmoore Francis (guitar), Tanagari Manning (bass guitar), and drummers Ewan Simpson, Jesse Golding and Andre LaTouche. They will be led by master drummer Henry Miller and Whylie on the keyboard.