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“Forging Lakou in the Grand Rue: A Polyphonic Reflection on a Collaborative Performance in Port-au-Prince” is a multivocal text that accompanies and extends a collaborative project the four authors (two Haitian, two US American) developed in December 2015 at the 4th Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. An assemblage of description, reflection, performance writing, and theory, this co-authored piece writes alongside the authors’ dancing in ways that mobilize a Kreyòl Vodou rasanbleman, a collective ritual gathering that incites and provokes. Together we move through themes of Petwo, Vodou knowledge formations, Ezili Dantò, Yanvalou, Lakou, queerness, cross-racial transnational collaboration, and the stakes of public performance across difference.