Performance at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Celebrating Culture: Haitian Heritage & Community
Thursday, May 15, 2025
7 - 8:30 pm
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.