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A Message from the Group Coordinator.
“We are a local community dance group with a passionate love of music and dance. We have been dancing Quadrille-Jamaican style since 2006, to keep our cultural heritage alive and increase our health and well-being.
We are motivated by our ancestors’ love of music and dance and their strategic use the quadrille dance, to keep their spirits high, maintain human dignity, and to communicate their secret plans for emancipation.
We admire their camaraderie and inherent belief in the enduring strength of the human spirit to overcome pain and suffering through the creative process of dance. Their persistence, inner strength, defiance and resilience, were attributes fundamental to their survival and triumph over oppression.
Our intention is to entertain, educate and inspire positive awareness of our Jamaican cultural heritage, across diverse cultural groups, age range and communities.
Our commitment to tell our ancestors’ story through the medium of dance is unwavering.
We welcome your support. Thank you.
Beverley Bogle
JÁNUKA Quadrille Group Coordinator
Latest Narratives
17. My Purpose Driven Vision For JÁNUKA
As co-founder and leader of JÁNUKA quadrille dance group since 2006, I have a clear vision of its potential to attract like-minded people who love to dance; motivated to showcase their dancing skills to the wider public; and keen to enhance their knowledge and understanding of their cultural heritage.
16. In Pursuit of Coded Messages Underpinning Quadrille Dance
My yearning for deeper understanding of the links between quadrille dancing and our African – Caribbean ancestors, took me on a soul-searching journey of discovery.
15. Dancing Quadrille – The Moral Challenge
On several occasions I have been asked: “Why do you want to continue dancing quadrille, a European dance, that is so strongly associated with the inhumane treatment, humiliation and pain that our ancestors’ endured during slavery, under colonial rule?”
JÁNUKA performing at the world-renowned Sadler’s Wells Theatre – London
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