Special Dance Workshop with Souleymane Badolo

Souleymane Badolo
Saturday, Oct 30 2021, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, VAPA Martha Hill Dance Theater
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Saturday, Oct 30 2021 1:00 PM Saturday, Oct 30 2021 3:00 PM America/New_York Special Dance Workshop with Souleymane Badolo Guest artist Souleymane Badolo will teach a special dance workshop of dance with drumming from Burkina Faso. This class is open to anyone in the Bennington College community VAPA Martha Hill Dance Theater Bennington College

Souleymane Badolo is a choreographer, educator, and performer of traditional and contemporary dance, and he is the Keeper of his family’s traditional Gurunsi ways. By fusing his traditional and contemporary practices, he has created an innovative art-making technique he calls African Science Calculations.

Dividing his time between Brooklyn and Ouagadougou, he is in the process of establishing a new educational, research and performance retreat center in the village of KYA, Burkina Faso, engaging the old and young alike to ensure it becomes an integrated center of creative living and learning.