Les Ballets Bagata

Youssouf Koumbassa founder of Les Ballets Bagata:

...attempts to bring the energy, excitement and history of African dance to a wide audience,Youssouf is meticulous in acknowledging the source of this material and insists on a high level of understanding and respect for the form among his students. He travels to Guinea regularly, taking students on dance trips and returns to the United States with the latest developments in contemporary dance so that his teaching is always a mixture of traditional work and the dances that infuse popular culture...West Africa Dance