In the winter of 2021/22 our Artistic Director N’famady Kouyaté travelled to his homeland of Guinea on an R&D trip supported by Wales Arts International’s International Opportunities Fund (IOF) to research the tradition of the balafon and its story, which is so central to the Mandingue folkloric canon.
The second Senegalese dancer we wish to introduce from our “Danser Ensemble…” project is Antoine Danfa This Wales/Senegal online collaboration is a SSA Go Digital partnership with Cie Fatou Cisse supported by British Council Wales.