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African Dance Program Thrives
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them because I was afraid I would
miss a movement."
Speed could be counted among
those in the crow d looking for
ward to the June 6 initiation-rite
perform ance involving all 20-
some dancers and 13 drumming
students at 7 p.m. in the SEI audi based on their innate ability and
passion to respond to drum beats.
torium , 3920 N. Kerby Ave.
Following the tryouts, she man
M anyongai-Jones argues that
this final perform ance will only dates attendance in four hours of
r e p re s e n t a c u lm in a tio n o f practice each week, always deny
m o n th s o f d isc ip lin e . T h ere ing her students any excuse to shirk
hasn’t been a beginning class for educational challenges at least
almost 20 years; she chooses stu through college. "If I can come from
dents in auditions every October the jungle of Africa and get a good
education in America and do what
I'm doing, then there is no reason
why you shouldn't succeed,” she
says.
She doesn't have to subsidize the
program with her own money for the
first year since its founding, but
Kukatonon means “we are one” in
the Kpelle language of Liberia, and
the significance continues to reso
nate through every aspect of her life.
Calling dance part of her "spirit,”
there's no part of her curriculum she
can take lightly.
"W hen I say that it takes a
village to raise a child, it means
that the people, all people, com
munity leaders, teachers, uncles,
a u n ts, s is te r s and b ro th e rs ,
should always be an important
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Local Resident Leads by Example
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