Germaine Acogny, a Universal Dance with African Roots

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Germaine Acogniy photo Patrick Meinhardt AFP At 81, the tireless mother of contemporary African dance continues to teach new generations of dancers and prepares a solo on Josephine Baker, which she will perform in September on the stage of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. " Walk! Take the energy of the earth," says Germaine Acogniy in the open-air studio of her school on the Senegalese coast to some thirty professional dancers, feet in t…