Jean-Léon Destiné, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Jean-Leon Destine was a Haitian dancer.
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Place of Birth: Saint-Marc, Artibonite, Haiti
About Jean-Léon Destiné
- Jean-Léon Destiné (March 26, 1918 – January 22, 2013) was a Haitian-born American dancer and choreographer.
- He was born in Saint-Marc and moved to the United States with the dance company of Lina Mathon-Blanchet in the early 1940s.
- He later studied at Howard University.
- His work, becoming well known in the 1940s, often addressed Haiti's history of resisting colonialism and slavery.
- He also danced with Katherine Dunham's company and founded a national dance company in Haiti in the late 1940s.
- Destiné is known as the father of Haitian professional dance.
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