Jean Appolon Expressions

Jean Appolon Expressions (JAE) celebrates and advances Haitian folkloric dance by building a contemporary cultural community that produces professional performances, educational opportunities, and training. Based in Cambridge, with programming across Greater Boston, JAE offers free community-based classes to diverse communities with the belief that folkloric dance builds resilience in its community by connecting people’s bodies and their movements to a tradition that crosses seas and generations. Its newest production, “Traka,” uses dance to spark healing from the many traumas that its community – mostly made up of Haitians, immigrants, and other BIPOC people – have suffered, both historically and presently, including the social isolation and harm caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and white supremacy.