By Gabrielle Speight-Leach<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Winifred Haun & Dancers is a contemporary dance company located in Chicago. Founded by Winifred Haun in 1990 who gave it a particular purpose to focus on social justice and civil rights activism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Winifred Haun\u2019s inspiration behind the company is her father, Declan Haun, a civil rights photojournalist in 1960. He covered a plethora of stories in various states from North Carolina to Illinois.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Growing up, Winifred Haun looked up to her father and the work that he did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy father had a determination to do something and that was given to me and my brothers and sister,\u201d Winifred Haun said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cShe started her company with a similar passion that her father had. She mentioned that as a white person, she understands her opportunity to make others aware of the issues within the community,”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEven though the company has always had diversity in mind in casting, projects, and communities that we work with, I thought I could do more and it became a much more conscious effort,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, just like her father, she tells current social justice stories in an artistic format that separates her from others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019ve seen similarities in my work and my father\u2019s work. I think what you see in his photographs is this emotional impact but it\u2019s framed artistically. I think that\u2019s sort of what I do with my work, so I don\u2019t hit people over the head with it but it’s there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haun has a new piece that she is currently developing intending to educate and influence the Chicago community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019m premiering a new work and that work is going to be called Absent Moon<\/em> and it is about the violence we have here in our society\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Haun said she has plans to leave the world better than how she found it. The Winifred Haun & Dancers Company will continue to shed light on current social justice issues. Creating artistic and emotionally impactful experiences through their performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more information about the Winifred Haun & Dancers company visit here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Gabrielle Speight-Leach Winifred Haun & Dancers is a contemporary dance company located in Chicago. Founded by Winifred Haun in 1990 who gave it a particular purpose to focus on social justice and civil rights […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-archives"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3600\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabjmonitor.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}