Germaine Acogny is a French choreographer and dancer, born in 1944 in Porto-Novo.
Biography
Germaine Acogny (born 1944) is a Senegalese dancer and choreographer. She is responsible for developing "African Dance", as well as the creation of several dance schools in both France and Senegal. She has been decorated by both countries, including being an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and a Knight of the National Order of the Lion.
Contemporaries
Wilfride Piollet
French dancer (1943-2015)
Ghislaine Thesmar
French ballet dancer (born 1943)
Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux
French ballet dancer, choreographer and instructor
François Klaus
French ballet dancer
Jeanine Claes
French artist, dancer, choreographer and teacher
Odile Duboc
French choreographer (1941–2010)
Coco Hotahota
French Polynesian dancer
André Prokovsky
Russian dancer and choreographer (1939-2009)
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