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KowTeff African Dance Company is located in Brooklyn, New York and is operated under the Artistic Direction of Sewaa Codrington. This unique performing company provides quality entertainment and education to its community and national audiences.KowTeff executes diverse folkloric components of the African Diaspora (African, African American, African Caribbean, etc.). The company's repertoire includes traditional music and dance, Chakaba (Traditional African Stilt Walking), choral selections, dramatizations and more.
Services include workshops, dance classes, historical lectures, music and dance lecture demonstrations, wedding presentations, performances, concerts, etc.
KowTeff African Dance Company can be reached through Sewaa Codrington at:
Phone:(347) 232-7834
E-Mail: [email protected] Afua Sewaa Codrington is the Director of KowTeff African Dance Company. Sewaa has studied ballet, toe dance, tap, modern, ethnic and traditional African folklore from the age of seven. Since 1977, she has studied the folkloric African dance of the Old Mali Empire under the wings of such master dance artists as Hazel Starks Bryant, Chuck Davis, Irizak Razala, Marie Basse Wiles, Souleyman Diop, Babacar Niang, Assane Konte, and Ibrahima Camara, Tako Sissoko to name just a few.
Brooklyn born, Sewaa's professional dance performances have taken her throughout the United States and the world with such companies as Afro-American Folkloric and Historical Society, International African American Ballet, Sabar-Ak-Ru-Afrique, Kairaba West African Dance Company, Africa in Motion, and presently as co-founder and director of KowTeff African Dance Company. But it was her extensive studies throughout the Sene-Gambia region under the tutelage of members of the National Ballet of Senegal during 1986-1988 that solidified her experience and love for African arts and culture.
Sewaa's expertise as an instructor of folklore has been an important contribution in the preservation and perpetuation of the culture of African people. She gives many hours a week sharing with young students in the public school system and adults in the community her knowledge and it is through them that her life's work is perpetuated.