Take 5 - Bay African Diaspora Dance Panel at EDF
lft to rt: Festival Co-Director, C.K. Ladzekpo; Deborah Vaughan Founder, Dimensions Dance Theatre; Colette Eloi, Artistic Director, El Wah Movement; Ms. Blanche Brown, Haitian Dance Pioneer; Latanya Tigner, Director Dimensions Extensions/Dancer-Dimensions Dance Theatre | photo cr: Jan McDermott TAKE5 : SF-EDF2013 YBCA - LAM Theater "...when I think of the African Diaspora, I think of it in terms of movement." Dance Pioneer Ms. Blanche Brown , reflects upon seeing her Aunt dancing the jitterbug in the 40's as she further comments that African Diaspora people have, "... an Ancestral memory in our body that makes us move in a certain way." june 29, 2013_San Francisco, CA -- Ms. Blanche's formal training of African Diaspora Dance was under the aegis of Dance Educator, Cultural Ambassador Ms. Nontsizi Cayou , whose formidable spirit principled the campaign, which led to the formation of San Francisco State University's Dep...