L'Antoinette Stines

Stines is also an actor, known for Luke Cage (2018), a Netflix series based on a Marvel Comics character, and Dancehall Is Us (2016). Dancehall Is Us is a 20-minute documentary about the culture of dance and musical traditions of Jamaica director and written by Egor Papulov. The film is a study of the nature of style dancehall, roots, street culture and style of life of the citizens brings the viewer to understand the country as a whole. The film is, in a sense, a portrait of Jamaica today. Dancehall Is Us has won the following awards: Best Shot at the Bellingham Music Film Festival (2016), Best Documentary at the Portobello Film Festival, Best Short at Rubber International Festival of Music on Cinema, Winner of Best Editing of a Documentary Award at TTMFF To Tylko Montaz Film Festival (2016) and Best International Short Documentary at Film Internacional de Cortometrajes Libelula Dorado and has been nominated for many others.

Stines released her first book, Soul Casings, on 5 July 2014. Soul Casings introduces L'Antech, the Anglophone Caribbean's first CARIMOD dance technique. The book is specifically designed as an introductory text explaining the path towards the philosophies underpinning the creation of the technique. Soul Casings was launched at the Philip Sherlock Center for the Creative Arts on the Mona Campus. Stines describes the title of the book as "I see the body as an encasement of the soul, and unless you engage the soul when you dance, then you are really just doing something else other than dancing", reported by the Jamaica Observer.

L'Antoinette Stines holds a Ph.D. from the University of the West Indies (2010) Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica in Cultural Studies. Stines is especially acclaimed for her work as a choreographer, technique professor and teacher. She lectures internationally on the traditional dance forms such as Kumina, Bruckins, Nyabinghi, Dancehall and the contemporary dance synthesis L'Antech.

Stines was the Director of Movement/Lead Choreographer for ICC Cricket World Cup Opening Ceremony- Jamaica (2007). Artistic Director for CARIFESTA XII- Haiti (2015). Stines was nominated for the Dora Mavor Moore Award (2018) in Toronto, Canada for Outstanding Choreography for the Watah Theatre production "Lukumi: A Dub Opera"

In 1978, Dr. L'Antionette Stines founded Miami's first primarily black dance company, L'Acadco, with a vision of bringing together the tri-ethnic communities of Spanish, African-American and Caucasian. Returning to Jamaica in 1982, L'Acadco was reborn with a different intention to present contemporary dance with a new voice, fresh and valid interpretations of the Jamaican landscape. Stines was the first choreographer to showcase Dancehall on a proscenium stage at the Little Theatre in Kingston, Jamaica in her renowned piece called "Bouyaka Bouyaka" (1984). Stines is also the first Artistic Director in Jamaica to fight the cause for payment of dancers.

Lenora Antoinette Stines (born September 5, 1951), better known as L'Antoinette Ọṣun Awade Wemo Stines is a Jamaican director, choreographer, author, actor and dancer. She is the founder and artistic director of L'Acadco: A United Caribbean Dance Force, an industry-leading contemporary dance company based in Jamaica. Stines is also the creator of the first Anglo Caribbean Modern Contemporary training procedure called L'Antech. L'Antech is an eclectic Caribbean contemporary technique that synthesizes African influences, Caribbean folklore, and is dominated by Jamaican Afro-Caribbean forms.