OVER twenty members of the National Dance Company of Ghana have left Accra for a performance tour of The Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

While in The Netherlands, the Company will participate in the Amsterdam Roots Festival which is being organised in collaboration with the Holland Festival. The Company is expected to perform at the Tropentheater in Amsterdam with “Solma” and “Images of Conflict,” pieces co-choreographed by F. Nii Yartey during separate collaborations with the Senegalese dance guru Germaine Acogny and the French choreographer Jean Francois Duroure.

After a series of concerts and workshops in other Dutch cities and towns, the Company will move to the English city of Manchester where they will make a bold appearance at the Spirit of Friendship Festival, a large cultural event that forms part of the Commonwealth Games

The group will later oganise a series of workshops and collaborate with Abasindi, an Afro-Carribean Women’s Charitable organisation. Formed over twenty years ago, Abasindi’s numerous activities include supporting black arts in all its forms and providing access to African and Carribean music, dance and rhythms to all communities.

The National Dance Company of Ghana has over the years thrilled enthusiastic audiences on all five continents with aesthetically pleasing dances that combine ancient folk and contemporary dance forms, rich polyrhythms of percussion and mellifluous melodies.

The tour is being sponsored by the Arts Council of England and Royal Tropical Institute of The Netherlands.