Latisha Cesar

Latisha started Krik Krak Festival UK to share her Haitian Heritage and Culture. She started the Create Your Well project to ensure that everyone has a well full of love and joy to draw from in times of need. This year she has brought these ideas together to bring joy to those who attend as well as help raise funds for a center that will educate and elevate many people for years to come.

The opening and closing workshops will prepare us to gain and then retain all that we can to nurture our mind body and souls.

Indygo Afi Ngozi

Indygo Afi Ngozi is a multidimynsional movement artist choreographer educator storyteller.  Indygo’s focus lies in providing all students with a creative and engaging dance education experience enabling them to channel their innate creativity and discover parts of themselves through movements. She seeks to create work that investigates the nuances found in the intersections between choreography, poetry, and vulnerability. She believes that she is first human; she engages her audience to explore what is found in-between spaces of humanness, allowing it to guide her in developing new understanding of the human experience.

Peniel Guerrier

As the artistic director of Tamboula d’Haiti and Kriye Bode Peniel has been making high quality art for more than 20 years. He’s passionate about education and building community. Through Kriye Bode he has been facilitating arts exchange between Haiti and the world by hosting artists from Haiti in New York and by personally guiding artists from around the world on trips through Haiti.

Peniel will be sharing his wealth of knowledge of Haitian Music and Dance to ensure that we have a solid foundation to build upon. We’re happy to welcome him back to the Krik Krak Festival.

Robenson Mathurin

A dancer choreographer and founder of Robenson Dance Fitness. Robenson delivers dance and fitness classes that will leave you smiling and feeling strong. He travels the world performing and teaching the traditional and contemporary movements of the African Diaspora working with artists such as Rutshelle Guillaume and Darlene Desca. He is also a principal dancer with Compagnie de Danse Jean- René Delsoin

Robenson will be joining us from Haiti with his a high energy class that will use dynamic movement and isolations to draw from Haitian Folkloric Dance to create contemporary choreography.

Laura Beaubrun

Laura Beaubrun is a creative, educator, activist, therapist, Fanm Vanyan. For Laura being an artist is more than a career it is a calling. As the daughter of Mimerose and Theodore ‘Lolo’ Beaubrun- the founders of legendary musical group Boukman Eksperyans - it is no surprise that Laura was able to carve a career that includes co directing the Erzulie music video by Yilian Canizares.

Her company ADJAE’s work to brings attenttion to the mind body connection creating artistic performances that aim for a spiritual journey. They become a way to tell a story that reminds the individual of a song already heard in the heart. ESSENCE is meant to help you connect with the unique voice within you and find a place within the ‘Lakou’ community.

Riva Nyri Precil

Riva is dancer, musician, author, and visual artist who works consciously to keep Caribbean customs alive. She is director of Tout Se Pa Dance Company which looks for the intersections between traditional and contemporary Haitian Music and Dance. Wearable Altar and Altar Art use Haitian Vodou symbols called Veve as inspiration for paintings, jewelry, and design of t-shirts and items that one may want to incorporate into their spiritual practice.

Riva’s style of workshop facilitation aims to feed the whole person. She does this through a therapeutic practice that incorporates healing and spirituality through her music and dance therapy. We will learn songs and stories that will help us to heal ourselves