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Colette Eloi, Performing Diaspora Artist-Defining my Art

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

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

Returning to the “Door of No Return”.

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.

Colette Eloi, Performing Diaspora Artist-Defining my Art

Returning to the “Door of No Return”.

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