The Natural Connection Experience

Create, Grow, Explore with JAE!
A Holistic Retreat in el Rincón, Dominican Republic
April 22 - 27, 2025 (5 nights!)

Your retreat ticket directly supports JAE’s mission and free programming to support the liberating power of Haitian-folkloric dance to cultivate hope, healing, and justice. Retreat profits will go straight back to JAE programming.

Create New Connections, Grow Your Self-Awareness, and Explore the Nourishing Beauty of Nature through the Natural Connection Experience, a Holistic Retreat in El Rincón, DR.

Jean Appolon Expressions (JAE) has partnered with Aventura Rincon Ecolodge to host an inclusive and unique 5 night retreat experience dedicated to fostering holistic wellness and liberation through practices that are rooted in the traditions of Haitian Folkloric culture and dance.

JAE, a nonprofit contemporary dance company, has designed this retreat in service of its mission to cultivate hope and healing towards a more expressive and socially just world. If you are looking for a soul healing experience while gaining a deeper understanding of Haitian culture and dance, this retreat is for you.

*If you reside in the Dominican Republic please reach out to learn about a special rate! 

Register here!

Join Jean for his Haitian Folklore class!

Read more and register.

In this hour-long class, you will get a great cardio warm-up through African dance movements and be guided through a series of stretches and strength-building exercises. Class will finish with a combination for all to learn and dance together.

Dancers of all backgrounds and experience levels are welcome!

REGISTER HERE

Join Jean for his Haitian Folklore class!

Read more and register.

In this hour-long class, you will get a great cardio warm-up through African dance movements and be guided through a series of stretches and strength-building exercises. Class will finish with a combination for all to learn and dance together.

Dancers of all backgrounds and experience levels are welcome!

REGISTER HERE

Performance at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Celebrating Culture: Haitian Heritage & Community

Thursday, May 15, 2025
7 - 8:30 pm

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As part of Haitian Heritage Month, Greater Boston-based contemporary dance company Jean Appolon Expressions (JAE) presents Ansanm Ansanm, Together Together, a vibrant medley celebrating Haitian culture and resilience.

Under the visionary leadership of Jean Appolon, JAE's compelling choreography preserves and elevates Haitian culture while inspiring reflection, healing, and celebration.This dynamic performance will feature selections from JAE’s repertoire as well as a celebratory new improvisational component adds an exuberant energy, inviting dancers, musicians, and audiences to share in a joyful expression of unity.

The performance will include:

Traka, meaning “Troubles” in Haitian Creole, is an exploration into how dance, culture, and community are pathways to healing for victims of traumatic events on both individual and community levels.

Pouvwa (Power), utilizes Haitian-folkloric dance, Afro-electronica, live drumming, visual installations, and workshops to invite us all to galvanize our power to create a new world while also naming the realities of structural, political, and cultural misuse of power across the globe.

Haitian Flag Day class!

Join us for a special, FREE outdoor class on Saturday, May 17th from 1:30-3pm in celebration of Haitian Flag Day! This class a part of the Port Arts Fest, in collaboration with the Community Art Center in Cambridge. Stay tuned for more info!

In this hour-long class, you will get a great cardio warm-up through African dance movements and be guided through a series of stretches and strength-building exercises. Class will finish with a combination for all to learn and dance together.

Dancers of all backgrounds and experience levels are welcome!

REGISTER HERE

Join Jean for his Haitian Folklore class!

Read more and register.

Join Jean for his Haitian Folklore class!

Read more and register.

In this hour-long class, you will get a great cardio warm-up through African dance movements and be guided through a series of stretches and strength-building exercises. Class will finish with a combination for all to learn and dance together.

Dancers of all backgrounds and experience levels are welcome!

REGISTER HERE

Join Jean for his Haitian Folklore class!

Read more and register.

In this hour-long class, you will get a great cardio warm-up through African dance movements and be guided through a series of stretches and strength-building exercises. Class will finish with a combination for all to learn and dance together.

Dancers of all backgrounds and experience levels are welcome!

REGISTER HERE

Join Jean for his Haitian Folklore class!

Read more and register.

In this hour-long class, you will get a great cardio warm-up through African dance movements and be guided through a series of stretches and strength-building exercises. Class will finish with a combination for all to learn and dance together.

Dancers of all backgrounds and experience levels are welcome!

REGISTER HERE

Join Jean for his Haitian Folklore class!

Read more and register.

Summer Dance Institute

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: July 7-19, 2025

Learn more here!

Roxbury Summer Dance Institute

July 28–August 2, 2025

Open to youth ages 5-18. Participants will work toward a culminating performance for their families. Daily attendance is required.

All ages will be learning and dancing together within community, as traditionally done in African learning systems.

Sign up here!

Save the date for our annual community celebration! More info to come!