Posted on January 24, 2020

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UNCG School of Dance student Abdoulay Koita in collaboration with The Denbaya Dance Company, The Western Guilford High School Chorus and the Southwest High School Dancers, premiers ‘The Djeli’s Job’ on March 14th in the UNCG Dance Theatre at 6:30pm.

This is a dance concert that will tell the stories that need to be told of the people of Africa and it’s diaspora by using Afrobeat, Trinidadian soca, Contemporary and Traditional African dance and music. The use of traditional dances will be to illustrate the steps we can take to make our community a little brighter by taking what our ancestors have left us and using it to build on their achievements.

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