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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Watching the West Indian Folk Dance Company perform at the University of Chicago I-House on Wednesday night, one can’t help imagining what would happen if the dancers relocated to the center of the ...
“I’m a Ph.D. student at SUNY School of Public Health, studying community health and policy,” Ignace said. “At Williams, my thesis work was interrogating the ways creative production and dance are ...
Jul. 8—ROCHESTER — Djenane Saint Juste dances for generations of her family. She teaches traditional Haitian dances as a way of speaking her heritage into the community. She finds her rhythm in ...