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Germaine Acogny
Germaine Acogny
Germaine Acogny (born 1944) be a Senegalese dancer den choreographer. She be responsible for developing "African Dance", as well as de creation of chaw dance schools insyd both France den Senegal. Na dem decorate am by both countries, wey dey include she be an Officer of de Ordre des Arts et des Lettres insyd France, den a Knight of de National Order of the Lion.
Early life
[edit | edit source]Dem born am insyd Benin insyd 1944 to a Senegalese civil servant, na Germaine Acogny sanso be a descendant of de Yoruba people thru ein grandmommie. Wen na she dey 10, de family move go Dakar, Senegal, wer na she spend de remainder of ein kiddie time. After she show a natural ability insyd dancing, she decide make she pursue dis as a career, wey she move go France insyd de 1960s ,ake she study modern dance den ballet for de École Simon-Siégel insyd Paris.[1][2]
Dance career
[edit | edit source]Upon ein return to Senegal,
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Germaine Acogny
Senegalese and French Choreographer Germaine Acogny has developed her own style and technique of contemporary African dance. She continues to choreograph, dance, produce, and teach around the world.
Since 1988, Acogny has frequently created solo pieces for herself, and since 2003 she has choreographed for her company, Jant-Bi, which tours globally. The company's dancers are all graduates of l'Ecole des Sables, an International Centre for Traditional and Contemporary African Dance that Acogny and her husband Helmut Vogt created in 2004. The center is a place of exchange between African dancers and dancers from all over the world. Here, dancers from all over Africa receive the rigorous training that guides them toward Contemporary African Dance.
Prior to her 2004 Grants to Artists award, Acogny created Sahel (1987), her first solo; Ye' OU (the awakening (1988); Africa, this memorable body (1989); Yewa, sublime water (1994), for her company; Z (
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BAJO EL SOL 2: GERMAINE ACOGNY + NORA CHIPAUMIRE
Senegalese and French, born in 1944, Germaine Acogny has evolved her own technique of Modern African Dance and is considered worldwide as the ‘mother of Contemporary African Dance’. She dances, choreographs and teaches all over the world and has become a powerful ambassador of African Dance and Culture. In 2021 La Biennale di Venezia awarded her the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement and in 2019, she received the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Excellence Award, in the category Arts and Letters. With her husband Helmut Vogt, she created the École des Sables, the International Centre for Traditional and Contemporary African Dances inaugurated in June 2004. Located in Toubab Dialaw / Senegal, it is an important place for training and exchange for African and international dancers. In 1997, she was appointed Artistic Director of the dance section of Afrique en Création in Paris. From 1977 to 1982, she was the Arti