Description
Presented by Instigation Festival in Partnership with Cultural Ties Festival
Lakansyèl (Haitian Kreyòl for “rainbow”) is a speculative performance collage inspired by Lumane Casimir, Haiti’s first female guitarist and a radiant, groundbreaking artist of the 1940s–50s. Through music, movement, voice, and image, Lakansyèl reimagines the cultural revolution that might have emerged had Lumane’s life not been cut short, where her brilliance and Black Caribbean imagination not only survived but flourished."Rooted in collective dreaming and radical imagination, the work reclaims freedom as an unfolding experiment, not a fixed prize. Through echoes of memory and flashes of futurism, it envisions a world where Black womanist resistance reverberates beyond time, and the future remains a space of possibility.
Closing out Instigation Festival - New Orleans 2026
Part 1 - Vwayaj
Directed by Marie Casimir
Choreography - Kai Knight
Movement:
Marie Casimir
J'aime GriffithZ
Kai Knight
Nikki Noland
Music:
Jeff Albert - trombone
Moyakhe DuBois - drums
Steve Lands - trumpet
Arif Smith -percussion/drums
Ayana Woods - voice, guitar
Video Art: Kim Alpert
Date & Time
Fri, Jan 30, 2026 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Venue Details
Lower Depths Theatre, Loyola University, Saint Charles Avenue, New Orleans, LA, USA
6301 Saint Charles AvenueNew Orleans, Louisiana 70118
