Adanta African Dancers
About
Adanta African Dancers, Representing Genuine Traditional African Cultural Dance, Music and Theatre
The award winning Adanta African dance group is a cultural organisation passionate about the preservation, education, and appreciation of traditional African music, dance, theatre, and culture. https://adantadance.com/
The dance group creates work aimed especially at enabling the audience to experience the beauty and energy that African dance can generate. Our activities have widespread workshop elements culminating into site specific events; these can be performed in unusual spaces, environments and high-profile theatres. The size of the troupe can also be altered to suit the specific requirements of event organizers.
Adanta dancers exists to explore and express body movement ideas through dance, which reflects their African roots, society and way of life. Adanta dance's philosophy is to create innovative dance routines by using sources rooted in traditional African culture and to communicate the diversity of dance vocabulary within the continent to its wide variety of audiences.
Our service provision philosophy is set up to suit the requirements of a wide range of clients. We believe that no performance opportunity is too big to undertake and none is too small to overlook.
We treat every performance booking with utmost respect and appreciation, recognising the fact that every booking comes as recognition and appreciation of our work and the professionalism of our artists.
Adanta African Dance Group performs on invitation, both locally and abroad. Throughout the year, Adanta sets up workshops within the inner London and outer London areas. In fact, Adanta have made many television appearances both in the United Kingdom and the UAE, including appearances on Channel 4's "Paul O'Grady Show", "Stealing Lives" (feature film for C4's), OBE, BENTV and other satellite channels. The company has also enjoyed publicity from the Times Newspaper, The Guardian, African Voice and numerous local newspapers and magazines.
Adanta Dance, through its community work, has used dance, music and drama workshops to engage people in the London metropolitan area both in schools and in community regions. The activities for the community program range from using music and dance to create pathway to employment, healthy lifestyle program for adults, healthy lifestyle program (outreach) for over-60s, using performing arts as a way of diverting young people from criminal activities, student enrichment programs for schools, colleges, and universities.
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