Performers represent dance, music stage and more from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Bay Area.
The Diamano Coura West African Dance Company is among the performers as the San Francisco International Arts Festival returns to a full schedule for 2023.The San Francisco International Arts Festival is celebrating its 20th season with a return to full programming June 8-18 at several venues in the city’s historic Mission District.
But recent years haven’t been kind to the festival. Policies enacted by the Trump administration beginning in 2016 led to several performance groups having severe difficulties obtaining visas to perform here. Then the pandemic curtailed performances, though the festival managed to present a handful of local productions each in the 2020-2022 seasons.
A stellar example of an SFIAF performer is Diamano Coura West African Dance Company which will be performing at Brava Theater on June 18, honoring the Juneteenth holiday. The troupe was founded in 1975 by the late Dr. Zakarya Diouf, a master drummer and dancer from Senegal, then a professor at San Jose State University. The company also spent some years in Southern California where Diouf met his wife-to-be Naomi. In 1987 they moved to the Bay Area for its cultural diversity.
Diouf continues, “I love all varieties of dance, but my passion is African dance. Something about the rhythm got into me.” In high school she spent spent a year in Los Angeles as an exchange student and after one semester graduated. Then she went to junior college, where one teacher asked her to teach African dance. After she returned to Liberia, she was determined to return to California.
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