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#we STAY vital🍃
Embraces deliberate wellness by leveraging our innate abilities, talents, and knowledge to serve intentionally with a positive impact.
At nzoCALIFA Dance Works we remain committed to serving via online formats,
through calls and appointments and encourage that, #we STAY vital
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I'm dedicated to teaching Families, Communal Arts, and Service Agents how to
next-level their service through researching their ROOTS! Learn just how at @ nzoCALIFAncestry
Attendees' kinship as Community at MAIN Oakland Public Library presented by nzoCALIFAncestry [Nov. 2017]
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*DANCE VIDEO REFLECTIONS* TAMBACOUNDA WEST AFRICAN DANCE CAMP, est. 1992
Tambacounda Productions founded the first 10-day West African Dance Camp in the United States, a Cultural trailblazer introducing premium Dance, Drum, and Conference experiences fueling the field while advancing the Cultural Learning and Study Component of West African Dance and Drum traditions.
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RENEE PUCKETT
Principle Dancer Ceedo Senegalese Dance Company. Instructor at Inaugural
Tambacounda West African Dance Camp 1992.
video courtesy of @Tumuba on YouTube
EKONKON [Jola - Senegaal: Casamance,
also Gambia, Guinea-Bissau]
Tambacounda Productions is the pioneering vision of Djembefola, Gran Abdoulaye Diakite [1950-2018] iba'e, iba'e tonnu For 18 years, he was the lead Djembe player of the National Ballet of Senegal and Celebrated Musical Director of Ceedo Senegalese Dance Company , founded in Oakland, California in the late 80's. Gran hailed from the Bamana, a Wisdom keeper of the Ancient traditions of the SEGU Empire, and a Master Teaching Artist of Choreography as well as a sought-after Craftsman of Cultural regalia.
Incomparable is any experience where one has ever learned Djembe or has Danced to his Djembe talk. Timeless is any precious moment of one who has ever sat at his feet, to learn about the Spirit of "Jebe Bara" as he spun sacred stories into a tightly woven fabric of heritage, still covering us today, like a priceless heirloom. ~A grand salute to you Gran
Featured video still, a rare capture of legendary Artists of
West African Dance and Drum legacy, Gran Abdoulaye & Master Artist Djibi Traore
VIDEO
Source: Archival footage filmed by Baba Tumani Onabiyi
Griot Filmmaker, Photographer (Still), Production Designer, Videographer
All courtesies and permission are intact.
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In Tribute to Grande Madame MAREME FAYE , Serer
of Senegal, West Africa; Global Dance legend throughout the U.S.
beloved Master Teacher of cherished Dance beginnings.
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Captured at a Los Angeles Conference, produced by African Soul Int'l 3rd year. This video depicts a treasured moment as Master Teacher Mareme Faye teaches Dances of the Serer. Where you stand, you must continue to Dance in homage to a Gran has gone home, bestowing traditions that live through us --
Our legacy! * Video: RMasai
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