Zantray lan Ginen

Here we come together as Caribbean artists committed to ecofeminist activism and the sacred sanctuaries that support life in this era of climate disaster . The multilateral conversation Zantray lan Ginen , which could be translated as "Afro-fertilized or Africa-fertilizing wombs," is an exploration of the interconnectedness between Haiti and the Caribbean through Vodou, the kinships between women's wombs and nature, and the sacredness that traverses those circles. At the crossroads of performance studies and environmentalism, this conversation brings together the creative ecologies and speech flows of four female artists: Haitian choreographer, artist and performer Linda Isabelle François Obas, interdisciplinary artist Oceana James from Saint Croix (US Virgin Islands), Cuban dancer-choreographer Yaima Santana Galindo, and me, Stéphanie Melyon-Reinette, a performer-choreographer from Guadeloupe. I met each of these other artists during my own artistic peregrinations in Cuba, Haiti, and Puerto Rico

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