By Katherine Dunham, Doubleday 1969, University of Chicago Press Edition 1994 | YouTube | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. In 1936, Katherine Mary Dunham, a brilliant and adventurous young woman torn between dance and anthropology, went solo to Haiti to study primitive dance and ritual. Videos include Dunham in the dance sequence of Stormy Weather and in a 1962 interview.
Continue reading →By Josefina Ortega, Granma | Haiti Chery. During a 1932 visit to Cuba, George Gershwin struck up a friendship with the musician Ignacio Piñeiro and took some musical notations of his works. The ideas for the Cuban Overture were thus born.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The dance: a poem inspired by a conversation, the birds, and Bach’s little fugue in G minor.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery | You Tube. Superb orchestral and dance performances of Astor Piazzolla’s Libertango are offered as a nod to the residents of Famatima and Chilecito whose protests have helped to save their lands and water from Canadian mining.
Continue reading →Music by Don Kato, Boukman Eksperyans, Vwadezil | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Nearly every Haitian Carnival 2012 song is an indictment of the current state of affairs: corruption, cholera, rapes, MINUSTAH. We’re not partying to forget but to remember. (songs in Kreyol)
Continue reading →Haiti Chery. Haitian dance: Karine LaBel & Company perform the Vodou-influenced Charaignee Caraibe and Namenlos.Karine LaBel & Company perform Charaignee Caraibe and Namenlos.Karine LaBel & Company perform Charaignee Caraibe and Namenlos.Karine LaBel & Company perform Charaignee Caraibe and Namenlos.
Continue reading →Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Viengsay Valdés is the Prima Ballerina of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba. She is considered the best ballerina in the world and one of its greatest dancers ever.
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