Residency with Haitian Compagnie de Danse Jean-René Delsoin

Residency with Haitian Compagnie de Danse Jean-René Delsoin. Co-hosted with the American Dance Festival and the Hayti Lab at Duke. Friday, October 26. Masterclass, Hull Ave. Dance Studio - 12:00pm-1:30pmInformal Performance, The Ark Dance Studio - 7:00pm. Saturday,October 27, Masterclass, ADF Studios, 721 Broad Street Durham, NC 27705 - 1:00-2:30pm. This company's gorgeously entwined movement and sound embraces Haitian drumming, ballet technique, and modern dance influences. "Bold, energetic, sensational." (Spotlight/Haiti) Jean-René Delsoin's outstanding, vibrant dancers and drummers embody choreography that captures Haiti now - raw and refined, spiritual, powerful, and precarious. "From Raboday to Nago, passing through Congo and the Yanvalou, corporeal rhythms and expressions worked in harmony to transform everything into beauty." (Le Nouvelliste/Haiti). The Backstage Series is made possible by a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation