“Our mission is to bring up African dancers, to save their traditions, their roots and to introduce them to other cultures…we should advance everything that our ancestors left to us so that young people can express with gestures their feelings of today…and develop their own vocabulary…” -Germaine Acogny
Jant-Bi choreographer and founder of Ecole des Sables
Senegalese and French, Acogny founded her first dance studio in Dakar in 1968. Her influences include the dances she had inherited from her grandmother, a Yoruba priest, and her studies of traditional African dances and Occidental dances (classic, modern) in Paris and New York.
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