Performer

Ballett Camara

Senegal

Ballet Camara from Senegal is a professional group composed of selected outstanding musicians and dancers.

They provide high standard African dance and drum shows with various choreographs and costumes (peul, yela, serer, balanta, dundumba, mbalax among others). They are unique worldwide for their acrobatic dance with the giant calabash (Guinean peul kunnawal tradition), the dance with the fire or the one leg dance, among other spectacular performances.

The artistic director of the group is two times winner (Oscar des Vacances) Abdoul Camara who has been touring since the age of 11 around the globe. He was a contracted dancer of the National Theatre of Senegal for years and now he is based in Budapest, Hungary with her family and organizes shows, dance and drum workshops. The European partner of Ballet Camara is Culturafrica Foundation,a Hungarian non-profit organization.

Abdoul Camara, artistic director and choreographer

Abdoul Camara is a professional dancer based in Budapest, Hungary. He started dancing at the age of 7. He has performed in France, Guadeloupe -island, Japan, India, Italy, Tunesia, Algeria, and DR-Congo among other countries. He is a wonderful artist and dancer of West-African dances (peul, serer, diola, yela, soninke etc.) He also sings, dances mbalax and plays djembe, dundun and balafon. He is famous for his unique performance with the giant calabash, that originates from his peul descendants. He was the master of several Senegalese dancers who are among the best performers at the moment in European and African companies. Click and read more about him.

Some excellent artists of the group

Elisabeth Mendy, dancer of Daniel Sorano National Theatre of Senegal is an extremely talendted and dynamic dancer. She is well known for her magnificent solo dances and energy. She is the leader of the female dancers of the group. She has performed in China, Hungary, India, Tunisia, and Italy among others. Kaly Camara is the son of Ibrahima Sory Camara, founder of the Ballet. Kaly Camara – or Vieux as his friends call him- is a multi-skilled artist. He is a djembe master and plays the peul flute. He is well known for his virtuosity in his solo and capability to follow the dancers with his rhytms which is essential for the dance with the giant calabash. He has performed in Japon, Hungary, France, Tunisia, Algeria, Congo among others. Aliou Ba plays with the dundun-sangban-kenkeni drums but he can also play the djembe at an extremely high level. He is a skilled artist who left his family in Mbour to come to Dakar to learn from the Camara family all that he knows about art.

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