BIO
A cultural activist, public health researcher and consultant, community-based organizer, and curating performing artist, Véronëque Ignace uses ethnographic tools, performance work, research, and public health understandings of program planning and evaluation to facilitate growth, racial equity policies, an orientation toward socio-political community engagement at non-profits, grassroots groups, and larger arts institutions.
The Flatbush, Brooklyn native often uses dance and writing to merge her passion for public health, Haiti, people-centered methodologies, and dance in such a way that allows for large-scale healing. With her movement, she hopes to complicate mechanisms for social change and health equity, connecting spiritual balance and self-understanding to modes of recovery and restoration. She says, "my movement codifies a history and language which I have inherited. In Haiti, dance and music become the guardians of tradition. Everywhere though, dance and music, together are expressions, and I need them to communicate.”
In 2016, Ignace founded Kriyol Dance! Collective, a collective of artist-leaders, to incite the unapologetic voices of Black arts, and Haitian culture in particular, through collaborative community organizing work and performance-based intervention. In 2018, she began actively building an archive for Lakou Societe St. Michel Archange.
She is an alum of Williams College and SUNY Downstate School of Public Health. She is currently a PhD student at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health.
The Flatbush, Brooklyn native often uses dance and writing to merge her passion for public health, Haiti, people-centered methodologies, and dance in such a way that allows for large-scale healing. With her movement, she hopes to complicate mechanisms for social change and health equity, connecting spiritual balance and self-understanding to modes of recovery and restoration. She says, "my movement codifies a history and language which I have inherited. In Haiti, dance and music become the guardians of tradition. Everywhere though, dance and music, together are expressions, and I need them to communicate.”
In 2016, Ignace founded Kriyol Dance! Collective, a collective of artist-leaders, to incite the unapologetic voices of Black arts, and Haitian culture in particular, through collaborative community organizing work and performance-based intervention. In 2018, she began actively building an archive for Lakou Societe St. Michel Archange.
She is an alum of Williams College and SUNY Downstate School of Public Health. She is currently a PhD student at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health.
EDUCATIONCUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy
Doctorate in Community Health and Health Policy - PhD Student SUNY Downstate Medical Center School of Public Health Master of Public Health - Department of Community Health Sciences Culminating Experience: Exploring Performance Ethnography and Arts-Based Approaches to Public Health Interventions (Dr. Aimee Afable) Williams College Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry; Concentration in Africana Studies (Highest Honors), Certificate in Spanish Honors Dossier: Health Through Dance: An Auto-biographical Journey of a Black Haitian Women at Williams College (Professor Shanti Singham, Professor Sandra L. Burton) Institute for the International Education of Students Abroad, Santiago Chile Spanish Language Immersion and Healthcare Studies AWARDSCitizens Committee for New York City
Neighborhood Grant (Kriyol Dance! Collective) April 2020, March 2019, March 2018 SUNY Downstate Medical Center School of Public Health, The Lowell E. Bellin, MD Award for Excellence in Public May 2017 EVIDENCE, A Dance Company Beth Young Scholarship Recipient August 2016 Williams College Ernest Brown Africana Arts Prize; Hubbard Hutchinson Memorial Fellowship in Dance May 2015 |
EXPERTISE
AFFILIATIONS
PRESENTATIONSPresenter, Implementing Haitian Feminist Theory in Dance Practice and Public Health for Collective Healing Haitian Studies Association Conference, Université Quisqueya Port-au-Prince, Haiti. November 2018
Presenter, Implementing Haitian Feminist Theory in Dance Practice and Public Health for Collective Healing Re-Imagining Black Girls' and Women's Health Symposium and Workshop, Towson University, MD. May 2018 Presenter, Implementing Haitian Feminist Theory in Dance Practice and Public Health APHA 2017 - Annual Meeting & Expo, Atlanta, GA. November 2017 |
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SELECTED PERFORMANCES
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RASIN SAN BOUT (2022)
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