JAE in the Media

Performance review in the Boston Globe, “Jean Appolon Expressions works through Traka,” May 2022

Article in the Boston Globe, “Moving through trauma in Jean Appolon Expressions’ Traka,” May 2022

insistent energy, authenticity, and individuality
— Jeffrey Gantz for The Boston Globe

Event preview in the Boston Globe, “36 of the best arts events coming to New England this spring,” March 2022

Article about award presentation in The Crimson, “Harambee Hosts Sixth Annual Black Religion, Spirituality, and Culture Conference at HDS,” February 2022

Interview with Jean in Voyage MIA, “Conversations with Jean Appolon,” November 2021

Event preview in the Boston Globe, “10 dance highlights to look forward to this season,” November 2021

Article in the Boston Globe, “Celebrating the strength and creativity of Boston’s immigrant communities,” September 2021

Article in the Boston Globe, “Completely traumatized: Local Haitian community members feel betrayed by US treatment of Haitian migrants,” September 2021

Article in the BU Daily Free Press, “BU Arts Initiative hosts its annual arts fair, bringing Boston arts community together,” September 2021

Event preview in the Boston Globe, “What’s happening in the arts world,” September 2021

Article in the Boston Globe, “Amid the Biotechs in Kendall Square, a place for dance,” February 2021

Grantee announcement in WBUR, “Boston Foundation Names Newest Live Arts Boston Grantees, Most Diverse Cohort Yet,” June 2021

Article in wbur’s The ARTery, “New Relief Grants Awarded to Keep Local Arts Organizations Alive",” January, 2021

Article in the Boston Globe, “Six bright spots in dance this year,” December, 2020

Article in the Boston Globe, “Roll up the rug for a surprising array of dance classes, all taught online,” March, 2020

Event preview in The New York Times, “5 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend,” August, 2019

Article in Loop Haiti, “Un Haitiano-Américain dans le plus grand festival de danse aux USA,” June, 2019

Event preview in wbur’s The ARTery, “#hellablack Provides Safe Space for Black Expression and Artistry,” February, 2019

Interview with Jean Appolon about TRAKA by Danielle Legros Georges (Professor of Creative Writing at Lesley University and Poet Laureate of Boston, 2015-2019), published in the Journal of Haitian Studies, 2018

Review in Le Nouvelliste, “Quand Jean Appolon Expressions célèbre la vie d’Emerante de Pradines",” July, 2018

Feature article in DigBoston, "Alternative Medicine: Haiti, Dance, and Healing with Jean Appolon," August 2016

Feature article in Le Nouvelliste, "Un cinquième round pour le camp de Jean Appolon," July 2016

Feature article in Le Nouvelliste, “Autour de la quatrième édition du camp de danse de Jean Appolon,” July 2016

Feature article in The Bay State Banner, “Haitian Dancer/Choreographer Jean Appolon Gives Back Through Dance,” March 2015

Feature article in Le Nouvelliste, “Une neuvième édition pour Jean Appolon Summer Dance,” July 2014

Interview with Jean Appolon on WBUR/NPR, May 2014

Interview with Jean Appolon on Kreyolicious.com, March 2014

Feature article in Dance Studio Life magazine, “Heat, Horton and Happiness,” January 2014

Article in The Harvard Crimson, “Haiti Through Dialogue and Dance,” September 2013

Feature article in Le Nouvelliste, “Comme une ode à Emerante de Pradines,” July 2013

Feature article in Le Nouvelliste, “Jean Appolon un danseur rebelle,” July 2013

Feature story in The Boston Globe, “Dancing for Haiti,” June 2013

Interview with Jean Appolon on Latitudes, broadcast on NPR stations nationwide, October 2012

Article in the Boston Haitian Reporter, “Jean Appolon Leads Dance Class in Cambridge,” December 2011

Feature story on NPR, “Through Dance, Haitians Process Their Pain,” May 2010

Jean Appolon interviewed by World Vision Report following the January 2010 earthquake disaster in Haiti

Jean Appolon featured on World Vision Report, December 2009


Press Releases 

2015 Jean Appolon Summer Dance Institute To Take Place At Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince June
July 24, 2015–April 16, 2015

Jean Appolon Expressions To Premiere Angaje Production at Boston Center for the Arts
November 1, 2014

Jean Appolon Expressions Receives Grant Award from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to Promote Social Equity for Young Haitians Through Dance Education
May 13, 2014