Gede Special Workshop w/ Julio Jean
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Come celebrate life, fertility and death with Haiti’s raucous Gede spirits through song, dance and drums. During Fête Gede, Haiti’s Feast of the Dead, revelers dress up and dance to entice the spirits of the dead to celebrate with their living descendants. In this very special workshop, you'll learn the traditional dances of Banda and Maskawon, mostly known as Yanvalou Gede in a dynamic two hour dance workshop led by Julio Jean and Alexandra Jean-Joseph.
We encourage everyone to wear black, white, purple or silver outfits and to bring props like a cane, dark glasses and tall black top hat!
Class Details:
Sunday, November 5 | 5-7pm | In Person
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In the pantheon of Haitian Vodou, "Gede" names the family of raucous spirits who personify the ancestral dead and sexual regeneration. They are the guardians of the crossroads between life and death, memorable characters that mock man's inhibitions around sexuality with the most crude, comical and ‘inappropriate’ behavior.