Hybrid (Join In Person or Online)
$12-20

This class will examine Haitian folkloric dance in terms of its lineage, the Haitian diaspora and the universal principles at the center of the specific Haitian/Vodou Dances.

Ms. Eloi is a seasoned Haitian Dance specialist, artist, commissioned choreographer, culture worker, educator, and published scholar. As a dean's fellow at the University of California at Rivers, she is a doctoral candidate in Critical Dance Studies where she is focusing on African Diaspora pre-colonial cosmology, epistemological ontology, and indigenous studies. As a first-generation Haitian, she is an embodied master Haitian Folkloric Dance professor, teaching songs, context, and history while giving the relevant steps. She has trained in Haitian dance with many master teachers including Madame Gauthier, Florencia Pierre, and Ramses Pierre, and studied drumming with Frisner Augustine and Yagbe Onilu. Ms. Eloi has toured as a professional Haitian artist extensively locally, nationally, and internationally, with groups like Groupe Petit La Croix, Project Reconnect, Chouconne, NY, and her own ELWAH Movement Dance Theater. She has also choreographed the 97 Yanvalou Dance Tribute to Katherine Dunham: A Living Birthday Card and the Dunham conference in Oakland, California.