JULES MUSASIZI is not a typical ballet director, and his troupe, the Ballet National du Rwanda, is not a typical company. Ten years ago, the central African nation of Rwanda was the site of one of the bloodiest episodes of ethnic cleansing since World War II. A campaign led by the ethnic Hutu population against the majority Tutsi group resulted in the deaths of approximately one million people in several months' time. Musasizi was a witness to and survivor of the carnage. "I lost many members of my family," he observes somberly. "I used to hate myself for surviving. After the genocide I was very depressed, but for me music and the arts were therapy."
A year ago, Musasizi took over the Ballet National du Rwanda after working for the National Commission of Reconciliation. …
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