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.



African Percussion Intermediate
a dancer, musician and poet

Mamadou M´Baye teaches poly rhythm from Senegal, introduces a wide range of sounds and tones and different forms of musical improvisation. The workshop consists of auditory training, simple and complex African rhythms, played either with two hands or with one hand and one stick. Mamadou offers an insight into the interrelation of the dancing body and the rhythm of the drums. This is how he as astoryteller creates choreography and musical composition.



African Dance for Children (6 to 9 years old)
human beings can learn everything they created

Above all Mamadou intends to convey joy in moving in sync with the music of the drums. In a playful manner the storyteller will keep to his credo "Human beings can learn everything they created!“



Mamadou M'Baye
More 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.
Mamadou M’Baye is first of all dancer, musician and poet, relating to his African culture, an ambassador between people and personalities of different cultures. He is an examplary intermediator of the relationship between the dancing body and the rhythm of the percussion. He is a storyteller, which plays an important part in his own choreografies and compositions.