Heritage Africa Dance Show 2013 launched

Energetic leaps and  twirls, as well as delicate moves  by  members of  the  Modin Sane Troupe and Kusun Dance Ensemble, gave an idea of what television audience should expect  this year when  they performed at the launch of the Heritage Africa dance reality show  last Saturday  at the Goethe-Institut  in Accra.

The Heritage Africa Dance Reality Show was instituted three years ago by  Clement Ablorh Kommey’s  Clecomax Multimedia. Dancers in pairs  performed indigenous Ghanaian pieces and made short relevant presentations on the dances to a panel of judges on the show.

The  Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts,  Dzifa Gomashie, officially launched this year’s programme and was happy the show had managed to survive for three years and hoped the organisers would strive to keep it going for many more years.

She congratulated  the Goethe-Institut for its firm support  for viable cultural events, including   the Heritage Africa dance  show.  The deputy minister  urged corporate bodies to make room for such shows in their budgets  to help  boost our culture.

Clecomax Multimedia’s CEO,  Clement  Kommey,   thanked the government  for allocating funds for the creative arts sector.  

He urged the  Ministry of Tourism,Culture and Creative Arts and the Ghana Education Service  to co-ordinate  and strengthen cultural lessons in our basic schools.

The Director of the Goethe- Institut, Robert Sobotta, also  said his outfit had been supporting cultural events in Ghana over the past  50 years and would continue to collaborate with organisers of the Heritage Africa  Dance Reality programme.

Judges for the last two editions,   David Nii Amo, Director of the National Dance Company and Ms Baaba Orleans-Lindsay, a theatre arts consultant will work with the show again this year.

“We will collaborate with the various regional centres of national culture to facilitate participation of more dancers from across the country,” the Clecomax Multimedia boss told Daily Graphic.

According to him, auditioning for contestants for the 2013 show  had begun and there was Ghc 5,000 available for the  top prize winners.

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