Part of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival, Drumsong African Ballet Theatre burst upon the stage at Josie Robertson Plaza with a program called “We Are Griots.”
This international troupe of performance artists, led by husband and wife team Obara Wali Rahman Ndiaye and Andara Rahman Ndiaye, feature the West African drums and folk dances of Old Mali and Senegal.
The group, formerly known as Sabar Ak Ru Afriq Dance Theatre, exuberently combine drumming, dancing, singing and rhythmic chanting (griot) with the earthy humor, rituals and ceremonies of the Sabar and Senegambia peoples.
A young dancer
Dancer with a prop
Dancer with a prop
Two dancers
Obara Wali Rahman Ndiaye
A “gossip” dance
The dancers
The finale
The company in Josie Robertson Plaza
Race Matters: Obara Wali Rahman Ndiaye
West African Dance Teachers in New York
Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center Out of Doors
Josie Robertson Plaza
Those performers look so beautiful in their gorgeous colors. Did they sound as wonderful as they looked? Somehow I imagine they did.
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Beautiful and colorful. It looks like a lively performance. I like the hippy fair photos too.
nice series. beautiful colors!
Cela devait etre une superbe fete. NYC en ete, c’est la fete tous les jours. Les photos sont tres bonnes
That was to be a superb festival. NYC in summer, it is the festival the every day. The photographs are very good</i<
it must be such fun to experience so many cultures in one’s own city itself…..NY is a true microcosm of the world…lovely pics, annulla, as always