A sun-baked Senegal village erupts in color for one of Africas biggest dance festivals
TOUBAB DIALAO, Senegal (AP) — Twenty-five dance companies from across Africa descended on a small Senegalese fishing village over the weekend for the African Dance Biennial, the continent’s largest showcase of contemporary African dance. Dozens of dancers in vivid oranges, greens and blues stomped, leaped and collapsed into the sand of the sun-baked village of Toubab Dialao, an hour from the capital Dakar. Founded in 1997, the African Dance Biennial has spent nearly three decades rotating...
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