Haiti: After the Earthquake(s), We Danced
Haiti’s cultural legacy is one of extraordinary resilience, creativity, and spiritual depth—a heritage expressed through movement, ritual, and community. Journalist and photographer Huáscar Robles brings this vibrancy to the forefront, inviting audiences to see Haiti through storytelling, transforming lived experience into beauty and meaning. Robles captures a nation that dances over its rubble and celebrates life through rhythm, ritual, and community. In post-earthquake Haiti, he finds not despair, but defiance—people who sing and dance in tent cities, artists who transform pain into expression, and traditions that endure through the Ayikodans dance troupe and Voodoo ceremonies in Souvenance.
This photographic collection invites viewers to see Haiti anew—not as a tragedy, but as a living archive of strength, art, and ancestral continuity. Robles illuminates Haiti’s rightful place in the world’s cultural history—as a nation that, against all odds, continues to create, celebrate and resist.
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 24, 2026, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: January 24 to March 21, 2026
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4814 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
BAC: (323) 644-6295
BJAC: (323) 644-6275
Barnsdall Arts Center (BAC), Barnsdall Junior Arts Center (BJAC), and BJAC Gallery are facilities operated by the City of Los Angeles, DCA
Public Land Acknowledgment
It is important that we prioritize respect for both the historic culture and the contemporary presence of indigenous peoples throughout California, and especially in the Los Angeles area. To that end, and particularly as a public and civic institution, we acknowledge that our facility resides on what was historically the homeland of Kizh, Tongva, and Chumash peoples who were dispossessed of their land.
BAC: (323) 644-6295
BJAC: (323) 644-6275
Barnsdall Arts Center (BAC), Barnsdall Junior Arts Center (BJAC), and BJAC Gallery are facilities operated by the City of Los Angeles, DCA
Public Land Acknowledgement
It is important that we prioritize respect for both the historic culture and the contemporary presence of indigenous peoples throughout California, and especially in the Los Angeles area. To that end, and particularly as a public and civic institution, we acknowledge that our facility resides on what was historically the homeland of Kizh, Tongva, and Chumash peoples who were dispossessed of their land.
