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BY AMANDA PALM
The Battalion
Dancer and choreographer
Amadou Thiam will host a dance and
drum workshop Saturday in room
134 of the Student Recreation Center.
Thiam is originally from Sena-
gal. West Africa and now resides in
San Antonio.
He has performed and taught
West African dance through out
West Africa and in the United
States for more than 10 years.
DeAun Woosley, fitness director
of the Student Recreation Center,
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said the workshop will highlight
rhythms and dances from Senegal,
Mali, Guinea and Gambia.
The geographic and ethnic ori
gin of each dance will be ex
plained, in addition to how the
dance is used in West African life.
“He wants people to understand
the meaning of the dances and how
important they are to the people of
West Africa,” Woosley said.
Woosley said she heard about the
dancer from a friend of Thiam’s.
"His friend in medical school ap
proached me," Woosley said. "She
told me he taught the dance class
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