{"id":783,"date":"2012-07-12T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T15:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/?p=783"},"modified":"2012-07-12T15:09:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T15:09:57","slug":"rasin-ginen-the-african-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/rasin-ginen-the-african-roots.html","title":{"rendered":"RASIN GINEN: THE AFRICAN ROOTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ayiti Fasafas and Center for Traditional Music and Dance in partnership with El Museo del Barrio present:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A New York Haitian Dance Showcase honoring Jean-L\u00e9on Destin\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, July 14th, 7:30PM<br \/>\nEl Museo del Barrio<br \/>\n1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th<br \/>\nNew York City<br \/>\n$9 suggested donation at door<\/p>\n<p>Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Ayiti Fasafas in partnership with El<br \/>\nMuseo del Barrio present Rasin Ginen (The African Roots), a showcase of some of<br \/>\nNew York&#8217;s finest Haitian traditional dance groups, coming together to water the<br \/>\nancestral roots of Haitian traditional dance, with a special tribute to Haitian<br \/>\ndance educator and elder, Jean-L\u00e9on Destin\u00e9.\u00a0 Five companies will perform at El<br \/>\nMuseo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th Street in Manhattan, on Saturday,<br \/>\nJuly 14, at 7:30 p.m. The program is presented in conjunction with El Museo&#8217;s &#8220;CARIBBEAN:<br \/>\nCrossroads of the World&#8221; exhibition, on display through January 6, 2013 and is the<br \/>\nthird and final event in the &#8220;Louvri Bary\u00e8:\u00a0 Opening the Gates&#8221; Haitian concert<br \/>\nseries, developed by Ayiti Fasafas and Center for Traditional Music and Dance.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional dances of Haiti trace their roots to West and West Central Africa.<br \/>\nHaving survived the Middle Passage, they flourished following Haitian independence<br \/>\nin 1804. In the twentieth century a black consciousness movement took the dances<br \/>\nto the stage. Jean-L\u00e9on Destin\u00e9, born in St. Marc, Haiti, pioneered this movement<br \/>\nand was instrumental in the creation of the National Folkloric Troupe in 1949. The<br \/>\ncompanies that will make up the program at El Museo del Barrio carry the spirit<br \/>\nand vision of pioneers like Mr. Destin\u00e9 into the twenty-first century, and into<br \/>\nthe Haitian diaspora in New York. Dance anthropologist Dr. Joan Burroughs, co-author<br \/>\nof a forthcoming biography of Mr. Destin\u00e9, will present highlights from his career,<br \/>\nand the artists will join Ms. Burroughs in presenting Mr. Destin\u00e9 with an award<br \/>\nfor his contribution to Haitian art and culture.\u00a0 The evening will be emceed by<br \/>\nNew York City Haitian radio host and community activist, Lionel Legros.<\/p>\n<p>The following youtube video shows one of the participating dance companies, KANu Dance Theater,<br \/>\nin performance.<\/p>\n<p><div class='jwplayer' id='jwplayer-0'><\/div><script type='text\/javascript'>if(typeof(jQuery)==\"function\"){(function($){$.fn.fitVids=function(){}})(jQuery)};jwplayer('jwplayer-0').setup({\"file\":\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/q7xQYDbU92A\"});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The five participating companies display the breadth and the depth of the repertoire.<br \/>\nFeet of Rhythm, founded by Nadia Dieudonn\u00e9 in 1994, has performed in both the United<br \/>\nStates and abroad, and many know the company for its outreach to young people in<br \/>\ncommunities throughout New York City. Haitian American Dance Theater founder Julio<br \/>\nJean studied at the National School of the Arts in his native Port-au-Prince and<br \/>\ntaught Haitian Dance at The Katherine Dunham Institute. He currently teaches at<br \/>\nCumbe in Brooklyn and Ripley-Grier in Manhattan, and for over 20 years has performed<br \/>\nand taught in theaters and universities across the United States. KaNu Dance Theater,<br \/>\nestablished in 2003 and directed by Jessica St. Vil, blends contemporary, modern,<br \/>\nand Afro-Caribbean dance to promote change and peace in Haiti and around the world;<br \/>\nthe company&#8217;s name derives from &#8220;Ka Pa Nou,&#8221; Haitian Krey\u00f2l for &#8220;Our Situation.&#8221;<br \/>\nKongo, a Brooklyn-based group of Haitian artists, musicians, and activists organized<br \/>\nin 1995 by Sanba lead vocalist Oneza Lafontant, weaves together drumming, guitar,<br \/>\npercussion, dance, and storytelling, working from the conviction that the artist<br \/>\nmust represent the community and engage it in the cause of positive change.\u00a0 Peniel<br \/>\nGuerrier, a dancer, choreographer, and musician, began his dance career in Haiti<br \/>\nwith Tamboula D&#8217;Ayiti, the National Theater, and Bacoulou. Experienced in Haitian,<br \/>\nWest African, and Brazilian dance, Mr. Guerrier aims to represent Haitian culture<br \/>\nworldwide through the language of dance.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Eileen Condon for sharing the information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ayiti Fasafas and Center for Traditional Music and Dance in partnership with El Museo del Barrio present: A New York Haitian Dance Showcase honoring Jean-L\u00e9on Destin\u00e9 Saturday, July 14th, 7:30PM El Museo del Barrio 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th New York City $9 suggested donation at door Center for Traditional Music and Dance and Ayiti [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63],"tags":[108,275,277,276],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dance","tag-afro-caribbean-dance","tag-ayiti-fasafas","tag-center-for-traditional-music-and-dance","tag-jean-leon-destine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4zx0X-cD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quiliby.com\/all\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}