KoresponDance - Ghana Dance Workshop: Encounter with living tradition

Workshop of traditional Ghanaian dance led by the members of the Ghana Dance Ensemble will be one of the top of this year's accompanying program. There were dozens of us at the Brewery Courtyard last year, will you join us this year as well? Immerse into the African rhythm and enjoy pure joy of movement.

Under the artistic leadership of: prof. Moses Nii-Dorte, Ruhia Sadik Maltiti, Ruben Kumade
Percussion: Daniel Brown, Christopher Ametefe

Ghana Dance Ensemble (GH)

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 to the world breathtaking insight into African aesthetics and culture from the African point of view. The current form of the Ghana Dance Ensemble under the leadership of Ben ObidoAyetteykeepsthe authenticity of traditions but at the same time widens the repertoire and examines dance as tool of expressing contemporary questions.

Ghana Dance Workshop: Encounter with living tradition

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