Krik Krak!
Group Classes for the Family
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Our Krik! Krak! program for children and adults offers:

• Music classes with Frisner Augustin at The Haitian American Alliance, Father Dempsey Center, and the Flatbush Beacon Center
  
  
• Dance classes with Mikerline Pierre at Haitian American Alliance and the Flatbush Beacon Center and with Marie Edith Jean at Father Dempsey Center.
  
  

Group classes run weekly through Spring. Instructors schedule private classes individually. Please remit fees in person or by sending a check paid to the order of La Troupe Makandal
621 Rutland Road #4C, Brooklyn NY 11203.

* Krik! Krak! receives funding from the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Office of the Borough President of Brooklyn, LP Music Group has donated music instruments.

Friday Evenings
7:00-8:30pm
Email La Troupe Makandal for more information, makandal-ny@juno.com, or call 718/953-6638.

* Supported by the Hunter College Music Department

A unique intersection of Makandal's theater and educational interests generated a semester-long residency for the Troupe at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Artistic Director Frisner Augustin, choreographer Erol Josue, and musicologist Lois Wilcken worked with University students to mount a full-scale production of traditional Vodou music and dance. Both artists performed with the students on Saturday, April 12, in University Auditorium. Dr. Wilcken provided an introduction, program notes, and a question and answer session following the performance.

The Makandal project in Gainesville responded to a call for proposals from the Center for Latin American Studies at the University, which organized a three-year project, Religion and Identity in the Americas, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation. Themes of the final year (2002-2003) included the representation of sacred traditions. Issues of representation of Vodou were thematic through the course of the project. Dr. Wilcken summed these up in a paper she read at the program's closing conference.

Frisner Augustin and Erol Josue deserve the highest accolades for their remarkable creativity. We extend special thanks to Larry Crook, Joan Frosch, and Sunni Witmer of the Center for World Arts (co-sponsor); all staff who smoothed the way for us; and the incomparable students of the University of Florida for making our experience there truly rich.

*The Gainsville project was funded by The Rockefeller Foundation

If you're interested in hosting La Troupe Makandal at your institution, please contact Dr. Lois Wilcken, makandal-ny@juno.com or 718/953-6638.