Bozeman Magazine

Feel your heart open and your fire ignite with West African World Dance to live drumming! Over 6 weeks, Ginny Watts leads our dance village through 3 heart-pumping choreographies based on dances passed to her from her African teachers, weaving information about the cultural context of each dance into the experience. Together, we will flow through warm up, movement, and cool down, riding a current of rhythm. Stormi Oshun, Shaun Phoenix, Galen Eldridge, and friends will provide the grounding support of live drumming played to honor and uplift novice and veteran dancers alike. Experience the power of dancing in a community we create, entrained to the calls of the drums! Yamama! expresses gratitude to their teachers and their teachers’ teachers from Africa. These men and women shared their skills and cultures, permitting the blessings of their cultures’ music and dance, history and people to benefit humankind around the world. They are true ambassadors for a world united in compassion and peace.