Department of French

Mise en sce`ne : Baka Roklo
Jeu et chant :    Nade`ge Dugravil  
                          Billy Midi
                          Baka Roklo
Percussion : Claude Saturne´
Direction du projet : Roger-Daniel Bensky

The performance :   

The´a^tre de mouvement. Du corps. Des rituels. Spectacle de tambours, de chants, de rythmes, de vie. Du myste`re. De la magie. De l’irre´el. Du vaudou. Depuis la vie. De l’espoir, enfin, pour ce bout d’i^le, pour Ayiti.

A theater of bodies in movement.  Rituals.  A performance with drums, with songs, with the rhythms of what’s alive. Mystery. Magic. Beyond the real. Vodou.  Spawned from life.  Hope ... yes ... for this end of the island, this Haiti.

Baka Roklo  (Guy Re´gis Jr.) :

Author, videographer and stage artist.  For the past ten years, he has been the dominant force inspiring Haitian theater. Through the exploratory work of NOUS, his company, he has launched a movement whose dynamism and influence has become an incontrovertible reference throughout the Caribbean.

Our sponsors :  

The French Department of Georgetown University wishes to gratefully acknowledge the welcome support of the following campus entities :

• The Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity and Affirmative Action  
(IDEAA )
• The Center for Latin-American Studies of the School of Foreign Service
• The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs
• The Americas Initiative of Georgetown College
• The African Studies Program of the School of Foreign Service
• The African-American Studies Program
• The Center for Multicultural Equity and Access ( CMEA )
• The Minority Mentoring Program
• The McCarthy Fund of the Department of French
• The Department of Theology
• The Anthropology Unit of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology

We also wish to especially recognize, along with Dr. Deborah Lesko Baker, Chairman of French and sterling supporter of cultural enrichment activity in French and Francophone Studies, Ms. Rosemary Kilkenny, VP for Institutional Diversity and Equity, for her generous enlightenment and early support, and Mr. George Corinaldi, a private donor, valued friend and former leader within the US Department of State.