The Washington Post, September 1st, 1997
The typical dance performance: You sit, you watch, you clap, you leave. Occasionally, though, a show can touch a deeper chord, can lift the audience to its feet, even call some to the stage. Such was the performance of KanKouran West African Dance Company at Lisner Auditorium Saturday night. The program, titled "Kounou," a Senegalese term for "yesterday," was the centerpiece of the local group's annual fund-raiser/conference on African dance and drumming. The conference, which ends today, drew participants and master teachers from around the country, the Caribbean and Africa, and many of them ...
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