Dancer Archives – L'union Suite https://www.lunionsuite.com/tag/dancer/ Country - People - Culture Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:44:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.lunionsuite.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/cropped-IMG_0226-32x32.jpg Dancer Archives – L'union Suite https://www.lunionsuite.com/tag/dancer/ 32 32 85605167 Haitian Dancer Who Lost Leg During Earthquake Can Salsa Again…. https://www.lunionsuite.com/haitian-dancer-who-lost-leg-during-earthquake-can-salsa-again/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=haitian-dancer-who-lost-leg-during-earthquake-can-salsa-again Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:40:21 +0000 http://lunionsuite.com/?p=13804 “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”  According to CarribeanLife Georges Exantus thought he’d never dance again. He was lucky just to be alive. The earthquake three years ago in Haiti’s capital flattened the apartment where he was living and he spent three days trapped under jagged rubble. After […]

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]]> 13804 American Dancer Katherine Dunham “Mother of Modern Black Dance” Hunger Strike For Haiti & More https://www.lunionsuite.com/american-dancer-katherine-dunham-mother-of-modern-black-dance-hunger-strike-for-haiti-more/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=american-dancer-katherine-dunham-mother-of-modern-black-dance-hunger-strike-for-haiti-more Wed, 10 Oct 2012 18:57:52 +0000 http://lunionsuite.com/?p=10853 Katherine Dunham (June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, and company director as well as an author, educator, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of the 20th century and has been called the “matriarch and queen mother of black […]

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