ROBENSON MATHURIN
NANM, A Robenson Mathurin Dance Company
NANM, A Robenson Mathurin Dance Company seeks to preserve and share Haitian culture while emphasizing Haiti’s significant contribution to Black and Latinx communities, as well as to the world, through the use of dance as a tool for expression and storytelling.
Channeling the meaning of its name in Haitian Creole, soul, NANM critically engages themes of discrimination, classism, immigration, and structural racism, and tasks its dancers with manifesting their own personal stories to connect their experiences to the themes that the company as a whole explores. NANM is a contemporary dance company based on Haitian traditional dance.
Eritaj x NANM
To be Haitian is to know that our freedom is a birthright. To be Black is to know the taste, smell, sound, and depth of this freedom, and to carry it in our blood and bones. To be Black and Haitian, today, is to reconcile this truth with the reality of loss, grief, and chaos, as well as an unwavering sense of hope and desire. Eritaj: The Story of the Land and the Voice of the Ancestors attempts to expose the nature of this duality and the process of such a reconciliation for the self, for the family, and for the community in our day-to-day lives.
Eritaj: The Story of the Land and the Voice of the Ancestors uses dance and embodied storytelling to revisit and reframe common scenarios of displacement, poverty, abuse, and misery often associated with Haiti’s descent to instability and insecurity. Eritaj does this while uniquely highlighting the lived connections between Haitians and other communities of the African Diaspora
Eritaj: The Story of the Land and the Voice of the Ancestors
NANM, A Robenson Mathurin Dance Company welcomes your generosity and support to make our vision for Eritaj: The Story of the Land and the Voice of the Ancestors come to fruition. Please consider making a donation to this upcoming dance performance today!