Theatre, Speech and Dance

Michelle Bach-Coulibaly is a teacher, choreographer, and dancer, who teaches on the facilities of Brown University, Connecticut College, the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Theatre Institute, and is the Director of Dance at the Providence Music School. She is artistic-director of BABEMBA USA, a World Music and Dance Ensemble, is choreographer- in- residence with the Touring and Repertory Dance Theare at Brown University, directs the children's West African Dance Company, Little Babemba, and performs and teaches as an artist in the schools throughout the New England states. She is currently working on a documentary, and accompanying textbook on the social and popular dances of the Bambara peoples of Mali, West Africa. With her troupe, she has developed inter-active programs that incorporate ritual play, drumming, storytelling, call and response singing, and dances that honor the West African Tradition in lieu of their influence upon American culture. Ms. Bach is also artistic director of modern dance troupe, TANAGRA MOVEMENT THEATER, an all woman's theatrical company that writes and presents original movement operas.

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