7 billion neighbors

The pleasure of learning to dance

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Dance class at Miss Aicha's dance studio, Dakar, Senegal © RFI/Raphaëlle Constant

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Dance has been present in Humanity for more than 3000 years.

A source of gathering for a victory or a death, a baptism or an initiation, dance has evolved to become a fun and entertaining activity with lessons in a dance school, in association, or during evenings and other dance meetings.

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Everyone would like to know how to dance and express themselves in this universal language of the body and of joy.

It is also a means of seduction, a good dancer can move to any sound and improvise movements that will coincide with the rhythm and energy of the music.

Why decide to learn to dance?

What are the virtues of dancing?  

Broadcast on the occasion of

on April 29, 2022

With :

Rachel Lombard

, 32-year-old dancer, creator of the dance school,

in Paris 

Aïcha Chaïbou Koraou

,

27 years old, choreographer, she founded

in Niamey (Niger) and teaches contemporary dance and break dance at the

A report by

in a dance school in Dakar, Senegal.  

The Miss Aisha's Dance Studio, located in the Ouakam district, offers courses in Afro dance, hip hop and even street jazz.

Our reporter Raphaelle Constant was able to follow a junior dancehall course for 9-15 year olds.

Good humor and hip waves guaranteed!

And an intervention by

, RFI correspondent in Medellin on the passion for dance in Colombia 

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