Doan Ket (1983–86, New York, NY) (Vietnamese translation for “solidarity”) was a short-lived collective founded in 1983 in New York by Gloria Nazario, a Puerto Rican dancer and political economist, and Hallie Wannamaker, a dancer and educator. Together, they organized workshops in Seboruco, Puerto Rico, collaborating with local communities through movement-based workshops to protest the US military occupation of Vieques, where the navy had a munitions depot and conducted bombing exercises, and the contamination of Seboruco by US industries. They were associated with socially engaged workshops at El Taller Latino Americano, coalitions such as Dancers for Disarmament and Trabajando, and were separately and collectively engaged with other artistic, activist, and aid groups working in Central America and the Caribbean. In 1984, Doan Ket was invited by the Sandinista Cultural Workers’ Association to create a cultural solidarity brigade to Nicaragua, where they performed in hospitals, cultural centers, and daycare centers around Managua and taught at the National School of Dance.
