Abdou Bayefall
After returning to Senegal, he joined “Ballet la Linguere, ” Senegal National Dance Company, and worked as the dancer and choreographer for three years. Then the Government of Senegal gave him the international license as dance professor. The five types of dance he can teach includes Djembe Dance, Sabar Dance, Sourouba Dance, Thiakaba (dance on one foot with stilts), Coumpo Dance (dance of Jola tribe) .
He came to Japan for the 2002 World Cup performance. After that, he moved the main base of activities to Japan, and as the dancer and drummer, he holds his workshops and performance on the stage around the world.
He is one of the outstanding dancers who will inherit the traditional Senegalese dance to the younger generation.
West African Traditional Dancer, Abdou Bayefall, was born in Senegal. At the age of 17, as the youngest member of the prestigious dance company “Ballet Sinomew,” he appeared on his first international stage in Morocco and then people started to call him “Fils du Ballet, ” a godsent child of ballet. On that stage, he was caught up in the eyes of Baaba Maal (famous Senegalese singer) and joined his tour as a dancer.
Continuing his career in New York, Ousmane, has performed extensively in this area at such venues as: The United Nations, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Symphony Space, The Florence Gould Hall, The Jewish Heritage Museum, Town Hall, Lincoln Center’s Summer Stage and Damrosh Park.
After that, he transferred to “Ballet Africa 2000” in Spain. In the next two years, he played three different roles as a dancer, a performer of Thiakaba and a drummer on the stage. also he played an active part as a dance teacher.