Artists & Projects Directory

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• Rha Goddess
• The America Project
• Yasuko Yokoshi

Cie Heddy Maalem

Cie Heddy Maalem offers master classes and workshops for dancers of a variety of ages and level.

Heddy Maalem
Heddy Maalem teaches a rigorous master class in contemporary movement for pre-professional and professional dancers. 

Hardo Ka
Hardo Ka's class asks the question: how can popular African dances can be brought to the stage? His approach is based on his experience with The National Ballet of Guinea in the 1970's, which tended to mix several dances originating from West Africa (Mali, Benin, Senegal, Guinea, etc.) in a single style called Freedom (Liberté).

Simone Gomis
Previously a champion in athletics, Simone Gomis began dancing with Germaine Acogny at Toubab Dialaw (Senegal), where she studied with Suzanne Linke, Avi Kaiser and Abdou Mama Diouf.  In 1999, in Montpellier, she took part in Louise Burns' master-classes.  As a dancer, she worked with Ballet Bakalama and 5e Dimension Company.  She has danced with Cie Heddy Maalem since 2000.  Gomis' classes combine traditional West African energy and rhythms while incorporating a contemporary approach to movement.

Qudus Onikeku
A dancer, acrobat, actor, but also a writer, Onikeku's Yoruba tradition plays a role in his art.  He is known in Africa, Europe and the Caribbean for his solo piece Lost Face 2004, and has toured with Cie Heddy Maalem, with Alajotas Dance Company (Nigeria), and with his own recent project, Do we Need Coca Cola to dance?  Onikeku is currently studying acro-dance at the National Higher School of Circus Arts in Châlons-en-Champagne, France.  In his workshops, Onikeku works on what he calls the body without organs, and stresses floor movements as a base toward acrobatic dance.