Colette Eloi

2 Jun, 2009

Colette Eloi, Performing Diaspora Artist-Defining my Art

2009-06-02T13:57:16-07:00By |Categories: Colette Eloi, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , |

If I were being safe I would say my art form is Haitian Folkloric Dance, then I would expound on it. However this would not be absolutely accurate. I am Haitian blooded African American raised in the United States by Haitian immigrants...."black". The two cultures are quite distinct yet share a "way","taste", "movement". This gives me a type of "dual consciousness".  Haitian Dance has deep roots in Africa.  They are planted in African traditions . The art I create expands

16 Sep, 2009

Returning to the “Door of No Return”.

2009-09-16T13:25:12-07:00By |Categories: Colette Eloi, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|Tags: , , |

I wonder if my ancestors imaged that their children would ever come back home to Africa. After experiencing being captured beat, chained together and walked miles and miles from their homes, ancestral lands, family, language, culture, religion, food, flora and fauna to sit and wait in a dungeon. To be taken to a place on boats named “Jesus” and such. The slave dungeon in Elmina, Ghana is called a castle ironically enough and a church sits on top of it.

23 Nov, 2009

Colette Eloi – Blog #3

2009-11-23T22:22:56-08:00By |Categories: Colette Eloi, CounterPULSE, Performing Diaspora|

Now that I am on the other side of Performing Diaspora where I presented the piece “The Politics of Poverty” – Sankofa Wisdom, I would just like to say whew. I really enjoyed all the different cultural groups and learning more about their artistry. Looking into the subject of Poverty was painful on my heart. The statistics that I found relating the people of the African Diaspora and poverty were shocking and depressing. The subject is quite mammoth and I

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