Williams College Pouvwa Tech Residency in collaboration with NCCAkron. (Closed residency)

During our time with NCCAkron, Jean Appolon Expressions (JAE) will engage in a tech residency for Pouvwa, made possible through funding from NEFA’s NDP and NCCAkron, and in partnership with Williams College. This will be the first time JAE will come together in one theatrical space with choreographer Jean Appolon, lighting designer and stage manager Laura Gisondi, and projection designer Seaghan McKay to experiment with key technical elements, while laying in choreography and music. Pouvwa is a multidisciplinary performance rooted in Haitian folkloric dance that interrogates systems of power and uplifts connection, resilience, and healing through movement, music, and poetry. Musicians Val Jeanty, Wichemond Thelus, Arnaud Lauture, and Josil Rebert, dancers IJ Chan, Velouse Joseph, Aiden Marshall, Meg McGrath, Lonnie Stanton, and Mcebisi Xotyeni, and poet Jean Dany Joachim will collaborate to bring this vision to life.