Photo taken during collaboration between Compagnie Jant-Bi and German dance group toula limnaios company in June 2010
The International Centre for Traditional and Contemporary African Dances now offers individual or collective residences to all writers, artists and musicians who seek new sources of inspiration in Toubab Dialaw. For example, during the summer of 2006, 25 American artists from UCLA participated in a 3 week cultural exchange program to Ecole des Sables. They worked and lived together in this amazing center under the leadership of Germaine Acogny and members of Jant-Bi. They documented this powerful experience on film for others to share in their journey-showing us the compound, the landscape which provides much inspiration, and providing viewers the rare opportunity to observe dance workshops led by Acogny herself. Check out the footage on the UW World Series Education Blog at http://www.uwworldseriescommunityconnections.blogspot.com/
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