École des Sables

I have found this training experience very enriching and important in my dancing career. This diploma in fact already benefits me because I will be able to apply to other schools around the world. This experience has made me change the way I see, think and perform dance! Now the biggest challenge is to go far in my career and show the School that they were right to have selected me for this training.

Vocational training in traditional and contemporary African dances at the École des Sables for three years, three months of which each year, is a dream come true for me. It has been a wonderful professional experience, which has built me up and gives me the power to act and express myself through dance and has changed my vision of things, and to this day, even though it has been completed, it continues to circulate within me and to shape my being and my artistic thinking.

The best part of the training was for me the encounter of all these dancers from Africa with their different cultures but also the fact that it pushed us to go beyond our limits in creation. And the great challenge for me was to create differently and to tell myself that everything is possible when you really put yourself into it. I would like to thank the Ecole des Sables with all its team for the training and the welcome, especially Patrick Acogny. May God bless the founders (Germaine Acogny and Helmut Vogt) and Ecole des Sables for all they do for the dancers of the world.