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Our online directory is still under construction. If you are a dance artist, Dance Company or musician and you would like your details placed in our directory free of charge, please email [email protected] .

The ADAD online practitioners and musicians directories can be used to find a dance artists, companies or musicians whose creative product draws on the Dance of the African Diaspora. Black dance/African Peoples dance (the terms generally used in Britain) is difficult to classify especially when we are referring to the work of dance artists and theatre practitioners.

For its own purpose, ADAD groups the Dance of the African Diaspora in to five categories: ‘African dance’, ‘Caribbean dance’, ‘African-American dance/Jazz’, ‘Neo-Classical dance/Fusion’ and ‘Urban/Street dance’. ADAD sees these labels as umbrella names for a wide range of practices and uses them to suggest the emphasis of the practices grouped in this way rather than their totality. The work of many practitioners could fit into two or more categories i.e. a dance piece could be considered as being all of the following: African, Urban and Fusion. We have decided to give Caribbean and African - American dances their own categories and not place them within African dance to give these practices their own space. Other dance practices from the African Diaspora i.e. Afro-Peruvian dance are placed within the African dance category. Artists are free to register for more than one category if they so wish.

   

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Akosua Boakye Akosua strongly believes that there is a lot to be gained from the fusion of the long-established African and modern dance forms through the path of dance education. This forms the basis of her current research into the work of Germaine Acogny's professional African dance education.

Akosua continues to create new opportunities with the aim of building an infrastructure though her placement and work with first year students at London Contemporary Dance School. She is currently the Cohort Director at Dance United, London Academy.  read more >>

Ancestral Hands/Danceafreaka DANCEAFREAKA is a new and fun system that uses traditional African dance techniques for you to improve, Body Tone, Flexibility, Fitness, and cardio vascular health. It incorporates aspects of dances from different parts of the continent.   read more >>

Ayigafrik Dance Ayigafrik is the dance company of choreographer Assayigah. Founded in 1985 at the very start of his career, Ayigafrik has changed and evolved according to the different circumstances, creations, and artists involved. Through the years, it has been the start of many a successful dancing career.  read more >>

Azaguno Azaguno is a colorful and vibrant Multi-ethnic Ensemble, which focuses on research, preservation, education and performance of traditional African music and dance, African American music and dance and other styles from the Caribbean and Latin America.  read more >>

Dancing Strong - Adesola Akinleye Company: Adesola Akinleye, Dancingstrong is the umbrella organisation that supports Adesola Akinleye’s work. This includes choreography for traditional theatre, film, site specific work and choreography for plays and theatre, as well as arts-in-education research and delivery.   read more >>

Deja-Fit DÉJÀ-FIT, Lifestyle Fitness Coaching was designed with real women in mind; to provide individual attention to help you reach your fitness, health and life goals, using elements of Afro-rhythms in group sessions for relaxation.  read more >>

Jonzi D Productions Jonzi D Productions is the UK’s newest and freshest Hip Hop theatre company. Its Artistic Director is the highly charismatic and irrepressible Jonzi D, one of the most recognised faces of Hip Hop culture in the UK.   read more >>

Mario López-Goicoechea I consider my work to be rooted primarily in the rich legacy left behind by cultures such as the Yoruba, Bantu, Arara and Carabali. My dance classes are structured in ways that let students know about the origin of these dances and allow them to establish a link between dance and rhythm. All this is done in a fun and positive environment.   read more >>

Monitor Risadinha Monitor Risadinha (Jacob) started learning Capoeira in 1994. He trained under the well known Masters Sylvia Bazzarelli and Marcos Dos Santos at the London School of Capoeira Heraçna. With three years teaching experience he was granted permission to open his own school, Capoeira Canal which follows the Herança methods and philosophy and runs regular classes for adults and children in West London.  read more >>

Nicola Geismar Currently I am striving to continue pushing boundaries in hip hop culture and actively represent its art forms with authenticity. There are several channels of which I endeavour on doing this through: Continuing to research and develop my personal style and individuality by drawing on the fundamentals of hip hop dance styles; create a platform for emerging and more established hip hop choreographers/dancers and pioneers and inform young people, in a youth arts context, about the practical, historical, safe and technical applications that form the basis of hip hop dance styles.
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