MARILYN SYLLA
msylla@smith.edu
Smith College: Mendenhall CPA, Berenson 1
(413) 585-3287
Five College Dance Department; Lecturer
Marilyn M. Sylla currently is a Five College Lecturer teaching at Smith
College, Mt. Holyoke College, Amherst College and UMass Amherst. She has
performed and taught in Brazil, Haiti, West Africa, including Guinea,
Senegal, the Gambia and the Casamance and the United States. She has
performed and taught at Jacob's Pillow, Omega Institute in New York,
Kripalu Center, Rockefeller Center, California Technical Institute, at the
Waldorf Astoria in New York City for the Latin American Music Awards and has
also performed with folksinger Pete Seeger.
She and her husband Sekou Sylla, former princpal dancer/acrobat with Les Ballets
Africains, the National Dance Company of the Republic of Guinea, W. Africa
direct the Bamidele Dancers & Drummers which presents workshops, concerts,
residencies and arts & education lecture demonstrations. In 1990 the group performed in Boston for Nelson Mandela. Marilyn & the Bamidele
Dancers & Drummers have released two CDs of African, Caribbean and Brazilian
music, "Live" and "United." In addition, Marilyn and Sekou have released an
African dance instructional video, "Wofa Baron" (Come Let's Dance).
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