Sir David Adjaye is the architect mentor and Mariam Kamara is his protegée for Rolex mentorship in 2018-2019.
The names of the new mentors and their protégés were announced on 5 February at a public ceremony in Berlin celebrating the completion of the 2016 - 2017 mentoring year, the 15th anniversary of the programme. Leading arts figures from Germany and around the world joined the new and past Rolex mentors and protégés at the gala event.
The first pairs to benefit from this extended mentorship are.-
DANCE.- Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite, famed for her passion to communicate ideas, emotions and stories, and her strong theatrical sensibility, has chosen as her protégée Khoudia Touré, 31, from Senegal, a pioneer in urban street dance. Touré has helped enrich African dance through her work as a dancer and choreographer with her hip-hop dance-based company.
LITERATURE.- New York-based writer, essayist and journalist Colm Tóibín has depicted his native Ireland and the experience of exile in his much - acclaimed novels; he will mentor Colin Barrett, 35, also from Ireland, whose first collection of short stories, Young Skins, received three major prizes in 2014 in the UK and Ireland.
MUSIC.- Indian musician Zakir Hussain – widely viewed as the world’s greatest tabla player, this composer, actor and producer will mentor Marcus Gilmore, 31, a New York jazz musician and startlingly innovative young drummer.
In 2020 - 2021 the programme will address film, theatre, visual arts and a variable eighth mentorship. In this expansion of the programme, the variable mentorship will take place in other fields of the arts; it will be announced in 2020.
