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.
Bitasyon x NANM
Bitasyon is a contemporary dance experience rooted in the spirit of the lakou-a sacred space of gathering, survival, culture, and memory.
Through powerful movement, live drumming, and storytelling, the piece explores the heartbeat of a people connected through land, ancestry, labor, celebration, and resilience.
Centered around the drum as both pulse and voice, Bitasyon transforms the stage into a living yard where tradition meets contemporary expression. The dancers embody community, struggle, joy, ritual, and rebirth, revealing the deep connections between the body, the earth, and ancestral memory.
Bitasyon: A Dance Experience Rooted In Community, Culture & Memory
NANM, A Robenson Mathurin Dance Company welcomes your generosity and support to make our vision for Bitasyon: A Dance Experience Rooted In Community, Culture & Memory come to fruition. Please consider making a donation to this upcoming dance performance today!