Germaine Acogny
Toubab Dialaw, Senegal
Living Legends
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Germaine Acogny is a Senegalese-French dancer, choreographer and teacher widely described as the mother of contemporary African dance. Born in Benin in 1944 and raised in Senegal, she built a technique rooted in traditional African dances and the body's relationship to the earth, combined with classical and modern Western training. She directed Mudra Afrique in Dakar, founded by Maurice Béjart, from 1977 to 1982, and in 1998 opened the École des Sables in Toubab Dialaw, an international centre f
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