African Dance
If you can walk you can dance
For Mamadou M’Baye African dance is first of all the joy of moving with the music of drums. He is teaching original African dances intending to make the participants aware of the unity of musical and physical rhythms. Mamadou refers not only to traditional and ritual dances from Senegal but also from West Africa in general teaching both their origins and their meaning.
Mamadou M‘BayeMore than fifteen years now the Senegalese Mamadou M’Baye – member of an old Griot family – has been a cultural ambassador in Europe, regarding himself as a modern traditionalist. In the original meaning of his African culture a dancer as much as a musician and storyteller Mamadou considers himself mainly as a cultural go-between.
Photo: Mamadou M‘Baye © David Bergé