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African dance-drum performance Friday

By Lyndel Owens '10
October 3, 2007

Internationally renowned performer Christian Yao Adeti, director-choreographer of the West African dance-drum company Titambe, will come to St. Olaf with African drummers Friday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. in Dittmann Center, studio 1. The event is free and open to the public. Based in Minneapolis, Adeti's third annual visit will include a student workshop in the afternoon.

A dancer since his childhood in Ghana, Adeti lived in Denmark for six years teaching classes, dancing with an African ballet company and developing Titambe. He has been instructing classes and holding workshops since moving to the United States in 2000. Titambe performs dances from western, eastern and southern Africa. Professor of Dance Sherry Saterstrom says that the drum rhythms are Titambe's core. "The dance and the drummers are wedded together. They are the essence of what is going on."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.