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Exhibition: VIZYON ATISTIK | Rasin San Bout | Roots Without End

Artists in Dialogue with Sounds of Haiti from the Alan Lomax Archive

Opening Reception and Artist Talk with Gage Averill: Saturday, September 19, 2026 from 6-9pm

Looking forward to participating in the "An Pale" Conversation and opening reception.

My new video collage/movement short Avan / Yè | A conversation - Ayiti, 1937 to Brooklyn, 2026

The work places archival footage/tracks from Alan Lomax's 1936-1937 recordings in rural Ayiti alongside contemporary movement created and performed by Maxine Montilus and myself in the heart of the Little Caribbean neighborhood in Brooklyn. Drawing from Rada dance traditions, danse Martinique, and contemporary movement practices, the video asks what becomes possible when bodies separated by nearly ninety years share the same visual and sonic space.

The Haitian spirit and deep connection to our culture is still alive and well in the diaspora. We honor those who came before us on our ancestral soil and take up space in the place we call home.

Directed by: Marie Casimir
Movement: Marie Casimir & Maxine Montilus
DP: Steve Zavitz

Featuring work by:

Laïssa Alexis • Love Aritus • Marie Casimir • Megan Delianne • Stephanie “Philomene” Dorceant • Jennica Drice • Sydney Rose Maubert • Christopher Mitchell • Marie Guilloto Stuppard • Zarita Zevallos

Soundscape design by musician Davidson Toussaint

Technical support provided by ENU Builds

Exhibition On View: September 19 through October 20, 2026 by @marieacasimir

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@tlp_immersive load in! big desk, lots of stairs, partnering, @bigreuse @materialsforthearts taken in SoHo, New York by @marieacasimir

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Snuck some clips 🫣 of @njoachim's world premiere of Le présent éternel w/ NY Philharmonic and vocalists Nathalie Cerin, Jade Hicks, Laurin Talese. Absolutely spectacular. 🇭🇹 Happy Haitian Heritage month! by @marieacasimir

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JOIN US THIS SAT! Artist Talk + Closing Reception, 2pm, Saturday, February 28, with Guest Speaker, Michelle Burdex, Program Coordinator, Greenwood Cultural Center, who will reflect on how she takes permission to breathe within cultural leadership and everyday life.

MEET ARTIST MARIE CASIMIR: Marie Casimir is a Haitian-American interdisciplinary artist, producer, curator, and educator. Her work blends improvisational movement, choreography, and performative text, often exploring cultural memory and Black diasporic identity. Featured at venues across the country, including Oklahoma Contemporary, Links Hall, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, DANCE@30FPS, and the Austin Dance Festival. Casimir's honors include a Ragdale Artist Fellowship, SixTwelve Residency Award, and a Heartland Regional Emmy nomination for her short film "I Dream of Greenwood.”

As the founder of Djaspora Productions, Casimir fosters global artistic exchanges for artists of color. She co-founded the Instigation Festival, celebrating improvised music and dance in Chicago and New Orleans, and serves as Producing Partner for Black Arts Retreat and Juneteenth on The East (OKC). Casimir served as Associate Director of Links Hall, Curator of Public Programs and Performances at Oklahoma Contemporary, and taught in the Clara Luper African & African American Studies program at the University of Oklahoma. @marieacasimir

Image 2: "We Remember, We Restore" 2021
A dance film choreographed and envisioned by Marie Casimir & J’aime Griffith. Directed by Marie Casimir & Mat Miller
Still image
4 min 54 sec
NFS

“Permission to Breathe: A Black Woman’s Perspective on Living Life Unapologetically”
Curated by Artists Ebony Iman Dallas + Elizabeth Feahther Henley + Jaiden Jiji McClellan
ARTIST TALK + CLOSING RECEPTION: 2pm, Sat, Feb 28

Gallery hours:
TH 6-8pm
FR 5-8pm
SA 12-5pm
+ BY APPT

Contact: Nicole Finley, Director @nic.finley - Positive Space Tulsa nicole@positivespacetulsa.org taken in Positive Space Tulsa by @marieacasimir

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Thanks New Orleans! Thanks @instigationfestival and all of our collaborators that made it a beautiful week. Couldn't even capture most of the momnets. taken in New Orleans, Louisiana by @marieacasimir

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The final night of the Instigation Festival is presented in partnership with the @culturaltiesdancefestival and features festival co-founder @marieacasimir ‘s “Lakansyèl” featuring movement artists @kai.knight.75 , @nikki.noland1 and @jaimeagriffith ,
musicians Jeff Albert, @thestevelands , Moyakhe DuBois, Arif Smith and @yaddawould and video artist @kimmerson

The performance begins at 7:30 at the Lower Depths Experimental Theater at Loyola University, $15 by @marieacasimir

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Looking forward to the further development of Lakansyèl and taking it to New Orleans with our beautiful group of talented musicians, dancers and visual artsits.

Tickets: Link in bio

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 Griffith
Kai Knight
Nikki Noland

Music:
Jeff Albert - trombone
Moyakhe DuBois - drums
Steve Lands - trumpet
Arif Smith -percussion/drums
Ayanna Woods - voice, guitar - @yaddawould

Video Art: @kimmerson taken in New Orleans, Louisiana by @marieacasimir

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@instigationfestival returns to New Orleans for our 10th year anniversary!
Complete Lineup - coming out soon, soon.

At The Broadside and Lower Depths Experimental Theater - Loyola University. taken in New Orleans, Louisiana by @marieacasimir

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Looking forward to returning to Oklahoma for this new film festival at @circlecinema . Showing a few of the films I directed -made w/ some talented folks including @jkarisdance @iamjeromebraggs @natashaabufadel @jordanjnicks @jaimeagriffith by @marieacasimir

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Lakensyél

Work-in-process

@instigationfestival Aug. 23 taken in Chicago, Illinois by @marieacasimir

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Instigation Festival @constellationchicago
August 23, 2025

Lakansyèl: A work-in-process performance collage by Marie Casimir
Jeff Albert – trombone
Moyakhe DuBois – drums
Steve Lands – trumpet
Arif Smith – drums
Ayana Woods – guitar, voice
J’aime Griffith – movement
Marie Casimir – movement
Nikki Noland – movement
Kai Knight – movement
Kim Alpert - Video Art

📷 Dennis McDunough by @marieacasimir

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3-on-3 at Instigation Festival @constellationchicago
8/22/25

Group 1
Nikki Noland – movement
Idris Daniel – drums
Jennifer Ligaya- movement

Group 2
Byron Asher – reeds
Katinka Kleijn – cello
Rob Frye – woodwinds

Group 3
Gaby Martinez – movement
Scott Rubin – violin
Tuli Bera – movement

📷 Dennis McDonough by @marieacasimir

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