KoresponDance - Ghana Dance Ensemble

Energy, rhythm and smilesof the Ghana Dance Ensemble are so contagious that you will be leaving their performance created especially for KoresponDancejoyous, relaxed and enriched with experience of having met their wonderful culture.

Come closer to the living and passionate Ghana traditions in the performance of the Ghana Dance Ensemble which the group prepared specifically for the festival. Similarly to many other countries the dramaturgy uses as the basis the usual everyday activities or myths; through traditional music and dance you can learn much more about their culture. In Ghana, dance and music not only accompany everyday life, they are an inseparable part of it. Encounter the incredible charge of their art, get to know wonderful artists and great people and be struck by the rich culture froma different continent.

Place: Meeting point

The project is realized in cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Akkra.

Choreography: Ben Obido Ayettey
Performance and Music: Ruhia Sadik Maltiki, Kallipo-Christopher Ametefe, Daniel Brown, Reuben Kumadey
With support: Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
Length of performance: 30 minutes

Ghana Dance Ensemble

The group was founded in 1962 on basis of a very successful cooperation of the governmental Institute of Art and Culture and Institute of African Studies at the Ghana University. Ghana Dance Ensemble is a group created with the goal to preserve rich heritage of the Ghana dance culture and support the creative work and creativity using Ghana dances as a basis. Since the beginning the group was supposed to be flag ship of professional global representation of Ghana and its musical and dance heritage and thus based on top-quality professional work and experimental research. In 1960‘s and 1970‘s the group together with Ballet African of Guinea Conakry presented the breathtaking insight into African aesthetics and culture from the African point of view to the world. The current form of the Ghana Dance Ensemble under the leadership of Ben ObidoAyetteymaintains the authenticity of traditions but at the same time widens the repertoire and examines dance as a tool of expressing contemporary questions. Ghana Dance Ensemble represents Ghana regularlyatinternational level.

The project is realized in cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Akkra.