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Nov 30, 2023 · Acogny, the Senegalese dancer, educator and choreographer, is known as the mother of contemporary dance in Africa, and Airaudo, who is French, was a longtime dancer with Pina Bausch.
For their part, Germaine Acogny, the mother of contemporary dance in Africa, created a duet with Malou Airaudo, one of the great performers of the Tanztheater Wuppertal. These two grandes dames of dance swap sensations, memories, and experiences, and share them with the public.
Dec 14, 2023 · The performance pairs with common ground[s], a new collaboration between longtime Bausch dancer Malou Airaudo and Germaine Acogny, the influential dance instructor and founder of École des Sables. The double bill opens with Airaudo and Acogny’s duet.
Dec 1, 2023 · common ground(s) – a duet by and between Malou Airaudo, a founding member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, and Germaine Acogny, the matriarch of contemporary African dance – roots itself in female friendship. Attired in sinuous black dresses with deep V backs, the duo weaves their unique voices into a contrapuntal melody of self-care ...
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Feb 10, 2024 · Honoring Bausch, the groundbreaking German choreographer who died at age 68 in 2009, the touring production has now been seen in Germany, Spain, France, Ghana, the Ivory Coast...
Dec 1, 2023 · Acogny is known as the mother of contemporary African dance, and Ms. Airaudo is a founding member and icon of Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. Germaine Acogny and Malou Airaudo in Common Ground(s)
Rite is paired with a new work created, performed, and inspired by the lives of two remarkable choreographers, professors, and grandmothers: Germaine Acogny, the founder of the Senegalese École des Sables who is widely considered to be “the mother of contemporary African dance,” and Malou Airaudo, who performed leading roles in many of ...
