She is working to create a repertoire in close collaboration with external choreographers.
Through contact with a choreographer representing another culture and another style of dance, a fusion is achieved between this style and the essence of African dance.

Compagnie Jant-Bi was created in 1998 with the dancers who took part in the first workshop at the International Centre for Traditional and Contemporary African Dance, ‘The Ecole des Sables’ in Toubab Dialaw.

Compagnie Jant-Bi maintains close links with the Centre, which is also a meeting point for dancers and choreographers from the African diaspora and other cultures around the world. In this way, each choreographic work reflects the spirit of the Centre.

By working with a choreographer who is representative of another culture and another style of dance, a fusion is created between this style and the essence of African dance. Susanne Linke and Germaine Acogny's first choreographic project, ‘Le coq est mort’, was a meeting between German dance theatre and African dance, and the second, co-choreographed by Kota Yamazaki and Germaine Acogny, ‘Fagaala’, was a meeting between Butoh and contemporary African dance. In 2007, Germaine Acogny teamed up with her son Patrick Acogny to create ‘Waxtaan’, a combination of contemporary dance and the finest traditional dances from different African countries.
It was last created in 2014 under the direction of renowned South African choreographer Robyn Orlin.

JANT-BI JIGEEN Since 2006, the idea of forming an all-female Jant-Bi company has been growing in the minds of the directors of Ecole des Sables. From 2009 onwards, the School has been working on a training programme for Senegalese women dancers, culminating in the creation of the Compagnie Jant-Bi Jigeen (Jant-Bi Femmes), bringing together 9 young dancers, 5 of whom come from the fishing village of Toubab Dialaw.

A first in Senegal, the existence of this company will serve, among other things, to give women their rightful place on the Senegalese contemporary dance scene, encourage female creativity and the emergence of female choreographers, and contribute to the professionalisation of female artists.

In Senegal, Africa and around the world, it will convey the ideas, questions and values facing Senegalese and African women in particular, and women in general, in today's societies. It's a way of raising awareness and asking questions about the issues specific to African women.

Afro-Dites / Kaddu Jigeen ! is the first piece by the Jant-Bi company from Senegal, choreographed by Germaine Acogny and Patrick Acogny. It's the story of 9 young Senegalese women who speak out, taking a scathing, danced look at their lives and modern Senegalese society.
Afro-Dites premiered in Dakar in January 2012 and has been touring internationally ever since.