Background
Saintus was born in 1964 in Portuguese-au-Prince.
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Jeanguy Saintus
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He studied anthropology, sociology and languages, Haitian traditional dance, and classical, modern and contemporary technique.
Career
He is one of the founders of the dance company Ayikodans, which in twenty years time grew to be a professional group of dancers with an own center and training program With his own Afro-contemporary techniques he has had an important part in the development of Caribbean dance. Next to his performances, he is dancing teacher in Jamaica and other countries.
Saintus is a self-taught dancer.
Each year he researches and composes new choreographies, in which he explores new limits. In his choreographies one can notice a melting-pot of Caribbean culture and the daily life of Haiti.
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Haiti