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Article: Stomping Spirits of Senegal; The Winning Ways of a National Dance Company
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- The Washington Post
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- November 22, 1987
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Read any fact sheet on the West African nation of Senegal, and
you'll learn that peanuts are its primary and most valuable export.
Yet value can be measured in spiritual as well as economic terms.
Consider the National Dance Company of Senegal. Since they embarked
on their first international tour 20 years ago, these ebullient
dancers and musicians have dazzled thousands with their country's
most visible and explosive art. This Wednesday through Sunday at the
Warner Theatre, they'll present a program of works entirely new to
Washington audiences.
A typical performance by this group can unstuff the stuffiest
shirt. The drummers hook you first, sending forth cascades of
rhythmic thunder. ...