My dance to self-conquest keeps me consciously grounded, genuinely alert and vibrant, naturally blooming 

Kadanse with the integrity of your inner balance to the rhythm of your inevitable inheritance for better living as you embody your constant becoming > My Dance to self-conquest: Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou) / To my sons, our sons and daughters, you, with honour to our ancestors...

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Onè! Let us kadanse to always align best with the power of our presence in the universe

My dance to self-conquest always leads me to recognize my voice and kadanse as valid and relevant.

I dance to self-conquest and set my path to consciously embody the power of presence in every moment.

I am Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou). As an apprentice and carrier of the sacred rhythm of our dance, I am evolving on the path of fondamental knowledge that claims me back to my ancestral inheritance.

My dance to self-conquest, to the rhythm of my inevitable inheritance, always leads me to recognize my voice and kadanse as valid and relevant.
| ~ Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou)
Photo: Wesley Rigaud, 2015

My dance to self-conquest - journey and landmarks

At 60, the vital energy in my dance to self-conquest leads me to connect more deeply with what is essential..

I dance to the rhythms of the drum and a poetic voice, the greatness of being a woman
| ~ Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou) | Photo: Wesley Rigaud, 2013

 The landmarks of my dance to self-conauest in my life's journey:

• Partly an only child, first of the class, both rebellious and compliant
  
  
• Immigration from Haiti to Canada where my dance turns into a duality of identity struggle
  
  
• Continuous training and development in traditional Haitian dances 
   
• Creation and development of Gwoup Kiskeya dance troupe
  
  
• Intensive Summer Program in contemporary dance, ballet, songs and percussions at Groupe de la Place Royale
  
  
• Becoming a mother twice
  
  
• Checkmated dreams of being a pediatrician, art teacher, figurehead in children's literature, then professional in aeronautics.
  
  
• Teaching traditional Haitian dances and initiation to Meritah (commonly called Africa in this modern era) and Caribbean rhythms.
   
• Professional and Artistic Training Program in African Contemporary Dance at Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata
  
  
• Intensive Summer Workshops, Drum and Dance, at Compagnie Danse Nyata Nyata
  
  
• Switching from salaried employee in administration and accounting to an independent worker lifestyle in financial planning.
  
  
• Initiation to Salsa and Capoeira at Studio Danse Montréal
  
  
• The evolution of this website about better living through cultural revolution dance that emanates from our inevitable inheritance, and as internet business.
  
  
• Contributions through dance, upon request, to activism initiatives.
  
  
• initiation on a journey to embrace our inevitable heritage from the sacred essence of culture.
  

My story

I dance to the rhythm of my heart and soul, my mind and spirit recognize the rhythm of my sacred essence.

I am a dance ethnologist apprentice by calling developed through life's imperative statements, practical training and self-directed learning. I am mostly a Kem's path apprentice as Meritah's child.

I proclaim to be a single mother by both conscious and unconscious desire. I claimed since my early teens to want children and no husband, all the while desiring a loving companionship.

I thrive to develop my talents to better serve us all under the necessity I see to dance our sacred essence and foster sustainable circles of individual and collective wellness in total health and fitness and integral wealth fiercely.

My dance to self-conquest is my absolute mean of expression, for as far as I can remember, it prompted me to live fully without restraint, despite how irrelevant and unvaluable the man and the woman through whom I swayed to this earthy world imprinted in me over the years.

"I dance to the rhythm of my heart and soul, my mind and spirit recognize the rhythm of my sacred essence." ~ Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou) | Photo: Wesley Rigaud, 2015

As Pearl Primus express it so well...

My first steps

Hardly walking yet, I would defy whatever standed in my way to get to the dance at my paternal grand parents' house. As a teenager, I took Ballet Jazz lessons and dreamed further to dance with icones like Louise Lapierre, Eddy Toussaint, Alvin Ailey...

As a young adult, I danced the rhythms of Vodou philosophy and was in awe to realize that the rhythms of my heart and the rhythms of the drum were one, that the vibrations of the rites of my origins were the reflections of my soul. The gestures and their meanings reveal the essence of my being deep in my womb.

I then forged, with my girlfriends, the dance troupe Gwoup Kiskeya. By deepening the knowledge of the dances of our origins, we revealed ourselves to ourselves, realizing a synergy of empowerment, solidarity and cohesion.

We immersed in the dances in unisson, heart and soul, body, mind and spirit spirit, for ten years.

Here I am, white skirt, more than 30 years ago with the core of Gwoup Kiskeya. We empowered ourselves in solidarity as we learn about our cultural roots through our dance heritage. | Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou)

Moving forward

"Today, an unparalleled anchor is present with my initiation on a journey that goes way back to the origin of humanity, to better embrace my inevitable inheritance heritage through fondamental knowledge and the sacred essence of culture."
~ Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou)

I started my activity on the internet in September 2011. What I had and still have to say has always been inherently part of me, it seems. I first began to express it in 1992 in a French course as part of a professional training that I followed in secretarial work under the recommendations of my brother, even though I was more interested in the accounting program offered in the same institution.

In fact, the awakening first sparked in 1988 during my university studies in visual arts and French literature after failing in biology. It was a period, starting in 1986, when I tried to align myself with my childhood dreams.

I first undertook studies in biology to move on to general medicine and then pediatrics. Then, I chose to study visual arts and French litterature towards the teaching of the arts and children's book writting. I was taking parallel classes at the Ottawa School of Arts where I also carried out live model contracts to better incorporate the arts community.

At the same period of time, I also experienced several areas of performance arts at the Groupe de la Place Royale. Shortly after, in 1987, the great adventure began with Gwoup Kiskeya, an adventure that lasted 10 years.

The birth of my eldest son in 1989, led me to follow the strings of life to meet our basic needs, namely housing, food and finding the means to offer him the best possible education.

In this frenzy, my body issued warning signals with 4 episodes of physical exhaustion, in 1990, 1991, 1997 and 2005. I reacted drastically to the 5th episode of exhaustion in 2007 by reorienting myself towards my dreams with that of an entrepreneur, this time. I first branched out as a financial planning agent, an in-between to try and cover our basic needs to start.

In the meantime, my second son was born in 1995, expanding my small family unit to three.

Finally, the 6th episode of exhaustion being physical and mental in 2011 was quite devastating, leading to the ultimate 7th episode of exhaustion in 2013 being fundamentally mental.

I have worked for the last 7 years, respecting the inherent rhythm of the process, to access what dwells deeply in me in order to best materialize the notion that We are One.

Today, an unparalleled anchor is present with my initiation on a journey that goes way back to the origin of humanity, to better embrace my inevitable inheritance through fondamental knowledge and the sacred essence of culture, guided by the ingrained rites of passage from our ancestral Kemetic memory.

The kemetic way of life, the kemetic philosophy and spirituality, brings fondamental knowledge of our ancestral traditions at the origin of humanity.

My blockages

Instead of being at war on every front, I dance who I in vibant self-conquest.

"I always felt this division between me and this other in me which took so much place in my head, while I remained very present in my body aligned with my authenticity."
| ~ Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou)

Three very heavy episodes have passed like bulldozers through this powerful source of deep joy and reconstruction that is dance.

At the birth of my second son, the most wonderful gift in life, I felt a deep shock of betrayal and stinging solitude. Biological paternity has been rejected and the circle of friends dispersed in indifference.

During the adolescence of my first son, I compared with what is most painful, it seemed to me, with the societal ambushes to the family, social problems and finances, the racial difficulties and the psychotic effects of marijuana.

In my professional career as an agent in financial planning, I felt trapped in the labyrinth of the world of faceless business.

In 2007, a period of retrospections after my 4th episode of exhaustion, I put myself in a position between 3 choices:

1. Start entrepreneurship training with the objective of making a living from dance passion 
2. Go to Senegal for 2 months of intensive African dance immersed in the adventure
3. Join Investors Group as a Financial Planning agent in hopes of making money first.

Although I opted for financial planning, because of course there was an interest, it was far from not what inhabits me. Finance is not what makes me vibrate, feel alive, gives me that momentum of life where I feel I am. I have the desire and the ability to learn about finance, but no natural tendencies or talents. I saw usefulness in helping people while providing me with a springboard to help me propel myself towards the fulfillment of what really inhabits me.

I tended to put aside what came naturally to me and look for things to be recognized and valued by others publicly. I wonder if this is why I have invested so much in accounting, administration and finance. Of course I always had the pretext of wanting to feed my family.

I always felt this division between me and this other in me which took so much place in my head, while I remained very present in my body aligned with my authenticity. 

Also, despite all, I share my dance to self-conquest with open heart enlightened infinite ever conscious love. Instead of being at war on every front, I dance who I in vibant self-conquest.

My dance to self-conquest is anchored to the call of my soul, inevitable inheritance to which I started to answer with Gwoup Kiskeya. Gwoup Kiskeya is the initial point of my understanding as carriers of the sacred essence of our dance.

I must set in motion this natural portal to dance life beyond all blockages, moving toward a broader global understanding of our timelessly rooted inevitable inheritance, guided by the ingrained rites of passage from ancestral Kemetic memory.

Cultivating my art

"The energy to act, learn and produce quality, nothing less, continually propels my courage."
| ~ Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou)

I've been learning my trade mainly through intrinsic research along with workshops in dance, in addition to formal training in ethnology and ethnographic films, validated by increased fondamental knowledge of our ancestral traditions at the origin of humanity.

The energy to act, learn and produce quality, nothing less, continually propels my courage.

My vision of my dance

My vision has always been clear about sharing the power of dance for integral wellness.

I follow through against all odds.

My vitality is a gathering strength.

My commitment to create an environment of harmony, beauty, and fundamental joy to infinity is a source of motivation. 

I walk willfully to spread serenity, respect and the joyful courage of love.

Through fundamentally joyful and powerful self-care to self-conquest, I aspire to bring light rays and beams, for everyone of us to dance its full potential of total presence, always.

The kreyòl Crone Goddess name, Tilarenn Solèy, I received in an ever present daydreaming state.

The mighty Goddess Nout, the deity that governs the month I was born in the kemetic sidereal calendar, bestows upon me all the wisdom of a mother and the awareness of protection and preservation for me to deploy in my path of becoming to truly live the name the earth recovered for me which is Khefista Shemzoumot.

Everything begins with a thought

Everything begins with an intention. I understand that we must be our own selves. My intention is to follow the truth we all have within. I communicate in movements, to the rhythms of life breaths memories. | Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou) | Ayiti la, Photo: Wesley Rigaud, 2015

It is in my gut, I'm engaged to follow the truth we all have within.  

I let the stream of my dance run freely. 

I open my soul and let go. 

I release my soul's vibrations to strengthen the bonds with the ancestors. 

Every word, every gesture is sent in the universe and dances with the stars. 

I understand that we must own ourselves.

My energy is set on my words to be always impeccable as I dance and express that I am what I came to share.

I dance to the rhythm of my sacred essence to self-conquest

I am devoted to lead by example.

I align heart and soul, body, mind, and spirit to dare to shine brightly. 

Revolisyon kadansenou.com is for you to enjoy your total presence unconditionally, to appreciate, integrate and share freely.

For me, it is a space open to the whole world to gain momentum and lay the foundations of the universal international Sacred Essence of Our Dance Carrier Movement.

As We are One, our individual energy positively nurtured is the foundation for individual and collective sustainable growth.

I am sharing all about my dance to self-conquest

I am sharing on everything I know, everything I am learning about self-care to self-conquest and the connection to our roots, our ancestral legacies to be in total presence, freely.

We shall elevate our consciousness through dance spirit integrity. 

It is all about who we are and who we shall become. 

It is all about growing in strength and wisdom. 

No sorrow, no angriness, no resentment will ever have room to stay in this truly genuine place.

Self-portrait invitation to dance love, respect and joy, balance and integrity in revolution dance movement and vibrant self-care to self-conquest to completely unlock the sacred essence of our dance legacy richness | Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou)

The dance floor is yours...

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Our lives, our dances, a continuous journey to self-conquest

My life, my dance, is a path of self-conquest to better embrace and own my power of presence.

I thrive in vibrant mindful presence to self-conquest through the fundamental joyful revolution of love, respect and integrity | Original artwork from Reginald Nazaire / NAZAREGI

 We must dance life to the rhythm of our sacred essence, wherever we go, in everything we do. We must dance who we are to self-conquest!

I acknowledge that the journey is always worth it as long as we stay genuine in our essence and learn to take our place with integrity. I kadanse who I am to self-conquest!

This is a quest where we get barriers down. I kadanse who I am to self-conquest!

This path is carved by alignment to our timeless essence, by the honesty and vitality of daring to live fully the depth of our dance. This is a journey where we fully endorse balance and harmony at every step and every move, where we feel the sacred essence of our dance through our vital energy, consciously present in every curve.

My dance has been and will always be a powerful quest to radiate inner balance and integrity.

To dance respect, clarity and integrity is to dare to Be always present, to align with our timeless essence in movement in synchronicity with the universal rhythm of balance and harmony.

I choose to dance who I am to self-conquest, so that we can better integrate our spiritual, cultural, social, political and economic power with daily keen consciousness of each movement at every moment.

Undergoing self-conquest

I embody self-care to self-conquest to advocate total health and fitness and instigate respect, clarity and integrity toward inner balance through dance spirit mindful power of presence enlightenment.

Our dance is our inherent universal and timeless resource.

Wherever you are, whichever walk of life you travel, your dance is your natural quality of life foundation. 

Your dance carries the essence of your power to self-conquest for individual and collective well-being, anti-aging emotional and physical health in body and mind, material and spiritual freedom across dimension, time transcendence, and more...

The power of self-conquest is always accessible in vibrant self-care as we thrive to the rhythms of our profound being and propel ourselves to completely unlock the sacred essence of our dance legacy richness!

My dance to self-conquest keeps me consciously grounded, genuinely alert and vibrant, naturally blooming.

Instead of being at war on every front, I dance who I am. We are One.

I dance to Maya Angelou's memory along with the memories of all the ancestors living in another realm
~ Khefista Shemzoumot (Grann Nan Listwa revolisyon Kadanse nou) | Photo: Wesley Rigaud |

"I come as one, but I stand as ten thousand."
~ Maya Angelou

At 60, the vital energy in my dance to self-conquest leads me to connect more deeply with what is essential.

My dance to self-conquest keeps me consciously grounded, genuinely alert and vibrant, naturally blooming

                                

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