KanKouran, a U.S. based dance company that specializes in West African Dance, preserves and promotes traditional West African culture by providing quality entertainment and educational programs to local and national audiences to facilitate cross-cultural enrichment.
The company’s outstanding reputation has spawned numerous collaborations with organizations and institutions throughout the United States and abroad. On the local and national levels, these include The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, the National Symphony Orchestra, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, California Center for the Arts, Howard University, Model Secondary School for the Arts at Gallaudet University, American University, George Mason University, University of Pittsburgh, and Virginia Technical Institute. On an international level: Silesian Dance Theater and the Dance Festival Krakow in Poland; Maui Dance Council, Hawaii; Japan Cultural Arts Center, Tokyo; the Island Center for the Performing Arts, St. Croix; as well as the Emancipation Day Committee of Trinidad and Tobago.
