Rhythm & Moves, a partnership between Northwest Folklife and the Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center, is an after-school program for music and dance. In the 2008-09 school year, students worked with instructors from Gansango Dance Company, featuring Etienne Cakpo, master drummer and choreographer from Benin, and Siya Manyakanyaka, a dancer from South Africa, to learn drumming and dances from West Africa. The students and teachers met twice a week from September through June. Rhythm & Moves students performed at the Seattle World Rhythm Festival and the 2009 Northwest Folklife Festival.
Rhythm & Moves Students Perform at the World Rhythm Festival, April 2009 (photo by Debbie Fant)
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