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"Agbekor" is a 400 year old warrior dance of the Ewe people of Ghana, performed to drums: "Axatse" (gourd shaker), "Gakogui" (double iron bell/timekeeper), "Kagan," (narrow drum/keeps a constant "off-beat"), "kidi" and "Sogo," (response drums), and the "Atimevu" (Master drum), which leads the ensemble. A horse's tail is held in one hand, as dancers gyrate hips and ribs in bird-like, contraction/release movements, front/back, and down to the earth, responding to "atsias" that signal changes.

Dance is the only art in which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. -Ted Shawn

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Lisa Leake
holds an MBA, M.Ed., and dance teacher’s license. She has trained internationally, and currently performs African dance/drumming, and contemporary dance, while teaching in high schools and colleges. She is a member of the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society (ADDS), Silimbo (W. African Dance Company), and co-founder of BodyGrooves world dance and music organization
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 "Dance is the song of the body." -Martha Graham 
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Feb 12, 2010

Kelley Donovan & Dancers "Made of Paper"

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-12126-Boston-Dance-Examiner~y2010m2d10-Kelley-Donovan--Dancers-Made-of-Paper-in-Cambridge

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"I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me." -George C. Wolfe