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Vanessa Gibbs is a dancer and choreographer who specializes in the West African Dances of Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Gambia and Guinea, with expertise in Caribbean and Brazilian Samba. She has studied with Nia Becker, Nzingah Camara, Chuck Davis, Terri Brown, Danny Hinds, and Torean Johnson of Barbados, West Indies, Tyrone Atkins of the Alvin Ailey Dance Company, Marie Base from Senegal, West Africa, El Hajjii Abubakari Lunna-Wumbie, from Ghana, West Africa, and Moustapha Bongara from Guinea, West Africa. Vanessa teaches and performs throughout the Kansas City area and is affiliated with organizations such as Genesis School, St. Vincent’s Operation Breakthrough, Accessible Arts, Young Audiences, the Kansas City Missouri School District, and the Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey. Ms. Gibbs has traveled and studied in Senegal, West Africa, and has performed in Chicago at the annual Dance Africa concert with the Sundance Dance Troupe. She had the distinction of being featured in the June 2003 issue of Jet Magazine. Ms. Gibbs, one of the co-founders of the Traditional Music Society and Dance Director of Soundz of Africa, continues to study other dance forms such as ballet, jazz, tap, and modern, while offering her teaching and performance talents to the Kansas City community.
