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Balafon Dance Ensemble takes center stage in Sharon
On Wednesday, the movements of West African dance were featured on the Penn State Shenango campus. The Balafon Dance Ensemble ...
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In Search of the 800-Year-Old Instrument That Keeps West African Tradition Alive
an 800-year-old balafon that dates back to the founding of the Mali empire. NEARLY 800 YEARS AGO, Sundiata Keita founded the largest and greatest kingdom in West African history: the Mali Empire.
Dancing to faraway places where memory, dreams weave new lands
Art Company's 'Les Voyageurs du Lointain' bridges West African, Korean cultures A group of dancers chant softly, occasionally ...
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Singer and virtuoso kora player Wassa Kouyaté will be accompanied by Balla Kouyaté, a virtuoso player of the balafon (West African xylophone). “Oral tradition holds that when the emperor Sundiata ...