Ms. Bespalova and Ms. Ikawa in collaboration with Ms. Fenster-Sparber Ms. Tamika and the NSD staff arranged a trip for Richmond Hill to go to BAM to see the 46th annual Dance Africa Festival.
We were in good company with 2,000 people in the audience dancing in their seats and enjoying the show! This year’s production featured music and dance from Ghana entitled “Golden Ghana: Adinkra, Anase and Abusua.” During the introduction, we learned that the people of Ghana welcome visitors with the wonderful word “Akwaaba” which literally translates as welcome! The students also enjoyed call and response with the words “ago," and "ame” which were first uttered from the BAM stage by Baba Chuck Davis, the founding father of Dance Africa. “Ago” means "attention" and “ame” means "you have my attention." Well, Dance Africa certainly grabbed our attention! --Lori Ikawa
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