About Maud Robart

Maud Robart was born in Haiti, where she became involved in the exploration of Rada Afro-Haitian songs, tracing back to ancestral Africa and tied to ritual contexts. Throughout her journey, these chants will remain, in their own specificity, her privileged tools of research.
 1974–1977  She co-founded the Saint Soleil artistic movement in Haiti. This commitment opens up for her a field of exploration into the forms and stakes of raw creative expression. Through its movement of transcendence — a liberating outpouring and an act of surpassing — this original vital force, both impersonal and enigmatic, reveals a fundamental dimension of the creative phenomenon: within it, the primitive truth of art unveils the essence of humanity.
 1977-1993  She collaborates as an artistic specialist with Jerzy Grotowski (Haiti, Poland, USA and Italy), in international study programs for research and continuing education in the field of performing arts and their ritual roots.
 1987-1988  For two consecutive years, she receives the French Lavoisier Grant for her practical studies in field of theatre.
Since 1994 she leads workshops and discusses her work in conferences and universities in various countries in Europe and the Americas... The songs, movements, and action patterns associated with her research are rooted in oral tradition and, as such, connect with the most foundational artistic forms. Maud Robart’s approach, oriented toward the discovery of the essential principles that underlie these techniques of origin, places direct experience at the foundation of the process of exploration and at the center of a living understanding.

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