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Germaine Acogny was born on 1944 in Allahé, Benin, is a Senegalese dancer and choreographer. Discover Germaine Acogny's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?

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Occupation Dancer and choreographer
Age 80 years old
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Born 1944
Birthday 1944
Birthplace Allahé, Benin
Nationality Benin

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Her husband is Helmut Vogt

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1944

Germaine Acogny (born 1944) is a Senegalese dancer and choreographer.

She is responsible for developing "African Dance", as well as the creation of several dance schools in both France and Senegal.

She has been decorated by both countries, including being an Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and a Knight of the National Order of the Lion.

Born in Benin in 1944 to a Senegalese civil servant, Germaine Acogny was also a descendant of the Yoruba people through her grandmother.

When she was 10, the family moved to Dakar, Senegal, where she spent the remainder of her childhood.

1960

After showing a natural ability in dancing, she decided to pursue this as a career, moving to France in the 1960s to study modern dance and ballet at the École Simon-Siégel in Paris.

Upon her return to Senegal, she began to teach dance locally, both privately and as part of the local secondary education system.

During this period she developed a new style, which she would later call the "African dance".

After choreographing dance to the poem Femme Noir, Femme Nu, she came to the attention of the author - President Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal.

After realising they had similar aspirations for African identity and culture, he sent her to work with choreographer Maurice Béjart in Brussels, Belgium.

1977

With the assistance of Senghor and Béjart, she founded Mudra Afrique, a school of dance in 1977.

While Béjart initially set the curriculum, which included Acogny's modern dance techniques.

He eventually recruited more dance teachers from the United States and attempted to take over Acogny's portion of the curriculum; she confronted him and demanded she was made the sole director of the school instead.

He agreed, and she combined the work of the foreign teachers with her own within the school.

She continued to develop the African dance as an ongoing hybrid between modern western styles and traditional African techniques.

1980

In 1980, she wrote and published Danse Africaine (African Dance), which set the standard for Senegalese dance.

1982

She left Mudra Afrique in 1982.

Three years later, she founded Studio Ecole Ballet Theatre in Toulouse, France, alongside her husband Helmut Vogt.

1995

She returned to Senegal to in 1995, and opened the dance school l'Ecole des Sables there three years later.

She involved the local villagers in the performances, with the studio set in the open air overlooking the ocean.

Around the same time as the new school opened, she began collaborating with overseas choreographers such as Susanne Linke and Kota Yamasaki to with on her company Jant-Bi to develop three hour dances for evening performances.

1997

Between 1997 and 2000, she was the Artistic Director of the Dance section of the Paris-based Afrique en Creation.

On February 17, 2021, she received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the Venice Dance Biennale.