2024 Peabody Dance! Festival Guest Class Teachers
Algernon Campbell is originally from Savannah, GA and a graduate of Morehouse College. He began training in Atlanta, GA at Ballethnic Academy of Dance where he was an apprentice. He graduated from the Certificate Program at the Ailey School. He was a member of Dallas Black Dance Theatre. He has danced the choreography and worked with Donald Byrd, Alonzo King, and Yuriko. He taught at several dance studios in Baltimore, DC, and PA. He is currently a dance teacher at Morton Street Dance Center.
Algernon will be teaching Horton on 2/25/2024 -- 12:00pm-1:15pm EST.
Algernon will be teaching Horton on 2/25/2024 -- 12:00pm-1:15pm EST.
Bintou Kouyate is of the 150th generation of Kouyate and is a Diali (oral historian) of the Manding tradition. In her responsibilities of keeping and maintaining history, giving counsel, and mediating, she takes honor in being one of the first of her bloodline known to be born in the western hemisphere, continuing the bond in the African Diaspora. She dedicates her mission to the retention of her people's culture from its heartland and throughout the Diaspora. As a lifelong dancer, dance instructor and educator since her teenage years; Kouyate is committed to the transmission of history, culture, and artistry.
As a professional dance artist and instructor for 30 plus years, Bintou Kouyate has performed and taught nationally and internationally throughout the United States, and in Colombia, Guinea, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire. She has performed substantially with Farafina Kan, Memory of African Culture Inc. and as a solo artist. As a guest artist Kouyate has performed with Urban Foli, DishiBem Traditional Contemporary Dance Group, Urban Afrikan, Nai Zou & Co., NSAA Dance and Drum Ensemble and as a community artist with Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company at American Dance Festival, Kankouran West African Dance Company and the Howard University Dance Program.
Bintou Kouyate is a Certified Massage Therapist. She is a facilitator in girls adolescent programs. Kouyate holds a Bachelors of Administration in Business Management degree from the University of the District of Columbia and a Bachelors of Science in Dance degree from Coppin State University.
Bintou Kouyate teaches traditional dances of West Africa representing cultures and peoples of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Cote d'Ivoire. Her instruction focuses on fundamentals of movement, technical language and nuances with their complementary existence within their rhythms, purposes and energies of the specific dances. The dances that Kouyate shares are acknowledged within their traditional context, social adaptations, and as performance expressions.
Bintou will be teaching West African on 2/25/2024 -- 1:15pm-2:30pm EST.
As a professional dance artist and instructor for 30 plus years, Bintou Kouyate has performed and taught nationally and internationally throughout the United States, and in Colombia, Guinea, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire. She has performed substantially with Farafina Kan, Memory of African Culture Inc. and as a solo artist. As a guest artist Kouyate has performed with Urban Foli, DishiBem Traditional Contemporary Dance Group, Urban Afrikan, Nai Zou & Co., NSAA Dance and Drum Ensemble and as a community artist with Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company at American Dance Festival, Kankouran West African Dance Company and the Howard University Dance Program.
Bintou Kouyate is a Certified Massage Therapist. She is a facilitator in girls adolescent programs. Kouyate holds a Bachelors of Administration in Business Management degree from the University of the District of Columbia and a Bachelors of Science in Dance degree from Coppin State University.
Bintou Kouyate teaches traditional dances of West Africa representing cultures and peoples of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Cote d'Ivoire. Her instruction focuses on fundamentals of movement, technical language and nuances with their complementary existence within their rhythms, purposes and energies of the specific dances. The dances that Kouyate shares are acknowledged within their traditional context, social adaptations, and as performance expressions.
Bintou will be teaching West African on 2/25/2024 -- 1:15pm-2:30pm EST.