They must be dancing to a different beat.
A Haitian salsa champion who returned to the stage after losing his leg in last year’s massive earthquake is being denied the chance to come to New York to show off his skills
George Exantus, 28, is getting a song-and-dance from US Embassy officials in Haiti who fear that if he comes to the United States, he might not leave.
Exantus is scheduled to appear Sunday at Manhattan’s annual Celebrate Israel Parade and then at a concert in Central Park.
Israeli doctors had provided Exantus with a state-of-the-art prosthesis and months of rehabilitation after his right leg was amputated below the knee.
Haiti’s salsa king was trapped for three days under rubble when the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake toppled his apartment building and pinned his feet and left hand under cement blocks. Friends found him and dug him out.
Eight months later he was dancing again.
Dancing at the parade was going to be his way of saying thanks.