MIAMI (Reuters) - When an earthquake shook Haiti's capital in January 2010, bringing death and destruction to the impoverished Caribbean nation, it all but crushed the dreams of modern dance ...

“With Afoutayi and Haitian culture, what we like is to put the community together because it’s a form of language for us,” said Djenane Saint Juste, founder and artistic director of Afoutayi. Djenane ...

Afoutayi Haitian Dance performed at the Chateau Theatre on Saturday, July 8, 2023, in downtown Rochester. Djenane Saint Juste, founder and artistic director of the group, left, holds the graj above ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The folkloric tradition and rhythms of Haiti come alive at The Dance Complex on ...

Three years after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, it’s easy to look to the island nation and wonder, what has been done, what has improved, is there rebirth? It can be a dark gaze — so much to be done. But ...

Dance has gotten Jean Appolon through hard times. The dancer and choreographer’s father was killed in violence surrounding the 1991 coup d’etat of democratically elected Haitian President ...

Jean Appolon, of Jean Appolon Expressions, leads a group of Hopkins Academy students in a Haitian dance workshop as part of Haitian Multicultural Day last Friday. Mcebisi Xotyeni, a manager and dancer ...

Fireworks and dancing erupted across Haiti in a reprieve from gang violence as people came together to celebrate their ...

I've been looking back this week at the twists and turns in my path and asking: how did I get here? How did I get to this place where I feel compelled to make a case for dance as a vital art? I’ve ...