Rara Tou Limen is thrilled to offer the community programmed activities featuring dance, music and cultural enrichment.
Here's to a dance season filled with CREATIVE ABUNDANCE * PROSPERITY * STRENGTH and SOLIDARITY within our dance community. We look forward to collectively celebrating the richness and vibrancy of Haitian culture with you!
Have You Heard The GOOD News?!
RTL turns 10!
Veve Sessions: Lwa Embodied
Concept/Stylist: Portsha Jefferson
Veve Artists: Sandrine Malary, Halima Marshall
Photographer: Chaplin Street Studio
2014 is our year, the 31st is our day, and during the month of MAY we are celebrating in a BIG way. We have a host of offerings for the community to begin in May, leading into our most ambitious and exciting project in August. Details coming SOON!
Upcoming Events
May 4
Alaso Kouzen Zaka! Dance + Song Workshop
May 18
Haitian Flag Day Celebration | RARA!
May 31
RTL Birthday Party!
July 18-20
RASANBLE! Haitian Arts & Culture Festival
We are grateful for another year, in deep gratitude for our community, and looking forward to continue to uplift a country whose culture has increasingly sustained the Bay Area’s artistic community and beyond.
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Friday 2.28.14
Joanna Haigood, Kendra Kimbrough Barnes, Portsha Jefferson Gregory Dawson w/ the Richard Howell Quintet |
Saturday 3.1.14
Joanna Haigood, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Portsha Jefferson Gregory Dawson w/ Richard Howell Quintet |
This weekend features world premieres by
Kendra Kimbrough Barnes
Clearance: Linking our Passage
Performed by The Kendra Kimbrough Dance Ensemble
Gregory Dawson
Birdseye View
Set to music by Jazz Artist, Richard Howell Quintet
Joanna Haigood
Dying While Black and Brown
Marc Bamuthi Joseph
Excerpts from red, black & Green: a blues
Portsha Jefferson
Zanset Ibo/Nago: Nasyon Dechennen!
Performed by Rara Tou Limen
BRAZIL + HAITI UNITE!
Rara Tou Limen presented our latest artistic offering, Serpent BLESSINGS, to a warm, inviting, and responsive audience, at CONTINUITY: a collaborative dance workshop + performance with celebrated Brazilian dancer, and choreographer, Rosangela Silvestre, and Portsha Jefferson, artistic director of
Rara Tou Limen.
Rara Tou Limen Performance Company
We were honored to share the stage with Rosangela Silvestre, bringing Brazil + Haiti together, while intertwining the powerful Serpent energy of Oxumare and Danbala Wedo. What a magical evening!
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Haitian Folkloric + Orixa Movement with Portsha & Rosangela
Community Dance Class at Dance Mission Theater
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RTL Kanaval NEWS!
There was a winding, curving, hissing, moving entity that slithered it's way into San Francisco's Carnaval. The Serpent!
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Photo Credit: Chaplin Street Studio
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Oakland | San Francisco | Haiti email: raratoulimen@gmail.com
DANCE * SONG * DRUM Workshops
Master Classes | Performances
School Residencies | Cultural Exchange Projects | Kanaval Group
 Click on Portsha's image for 'Oakland North Article' PORTSHA JEFFERSON
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 Click on image to hear Haitian rhythms with Daniel DANIEL "BRAV" BREVIL
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Rara Tou Limen embodies a deep and cherished legacy, developing strength
and solidarity within its Haitian communities...
Rara Tou Limen continues to uplift a country whose culture has increasingly sustained the Bay Area’s artistic community and beyond!
Our objective is to help nurture and cultivate Haitian dance and music traditions in the Bay Area through building & enhancing working relationships between artists promoting Haitian culture across the U.S. and in Haiti.
In keeping with this tradition of exchange, Rara Tou Limen conducted its first cultural exchange tour to Haiti with 10 members in April '09 & April '13 to further investigate & research Haitian cultural traditions. [click pic 4 video] |
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