BIOGRAPHY

Jean-Paul Weaver (Denver, USA) is a Haitian-American artist who holds an A.A. in Theatre and an A.A. in Dance from Casper College, an alumnus of Alonzo King's Lines Ballet Training Program ( USA), and a self-taught visual artist. Her dance credits include Texture Contemporary Ballet (USA), Staycee Pearl Dance Project (USA), and Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (USA). Her residency credits include The Indy Convergence (USA) and Pearl Diving Movement Residency (Madonna Gris) (USA), as well as presented original Movement installations for Santa Fe Outdoor Visions Festival (USA), The Stars Hold Our Stories (USA), and as a part of  Dis rupt ( Yirramboi Festival, Australia ). She also functions as an administrative director for Xaragua Art Center based in Jakmel, Haiti, and works to connect Haitian communities to indigenous communities around the globe. These credits include lead choreographer and Haitian cultural exchange coordinator for a live performance as a part of The Wind Blows To The Future festival (台灣屏東), curating the program for week 2 for Revolutions Theatre Festival 2021 ( Revo INC, USA), Co-producing a 2022 Telly award-winning Short Documentary; Beyond Borders: An Interidigenational Conversation ( Purpose Productions, Taiwan/USA),  and as a panelist speaker for Interindigeneity: First Peoples and International Exchange ( National Performance Network, USA).

 

Her artistic work focuses on embodying gender liberation through the lens of indigenous futurism by using Haitian Vodou folklore culture to explore the intersections of race, culture, gender, technology, spirituality, and decolonization. She invokes a psychosomatic transference of genetic memory through the continuum of ancestral Indigenous storytelling rituals, depicting the ancestor's process of understanding dreams and metaphors as metamorphic prophecies left behind to guide future generations. She tends to focus on themes of queerness, quantum realities, the spiritual realm, bio-luminosity, transformation, fertility, ancestral technologies, and Indigenous sciences through physical Vodou altars, visual projections, and dance.