Ecole Des Sables | Association Jant-Bi

the international centre for traditional and contemporary african dances, commonly known as “école des sables” and managed by the jant-bi association, is a professional school with theoretical and practical teaching, a research laboratory and is a space for meetings and exchanges, conferences and artistic residencies for dancers from africa and all continents. recognized worldwide, it has become a global dance village, based on the richness of dances and cultures from all over africa, a place where dancers from all over the world come together to create new dances with new energies. the founders, germaine acogny and helmut vogt, founded the jant-bi association in 1994. in 1996, they laid the foundation stone of the école des sables de toubab dialaw, senegal, a small fishing village 50 km south of dakar. after 6 years of construction, the centre was inaugurated in june 2004. it is a real dance village with its two dance studios of 400 m2 and 280 m2, its conference room, 24 bungalows