News & Updates
KO-THI Dance Company is excited to share their plans for Dance Fest 2024, promising a vibrant mix of African, Caribbean, and African American dances. This year's festival will have amazing performances and fun workshops that celebrate our rich cultural heritage.
Language of Rhythm Inspires Milwaukee’s African Diaspora" celebrates the legacy of "Mama Ferne" and the Ko-Thi Dance Company in enriching Milwaukee's cultural landscape and fostering African heritage through dance and rhythm.
The Ko-Thi Dance Company celebrates 55 years of enriching the Milwaukee community with its impactful performances and dedication to African cultural heritage.
"The Village of Ko-Thi Performs ‘Under the Baobab Tree’" showcases the Ko-Thi Dance Company's vibrant performance, celebrating African culture and community through a captivating blend of dance and storytelling.
"Cultivating Gifts, Growth, and Exploration for Youth Through African Dance and Drumming" emphasizes how engaging young people in African dance and drumming nurtures their talents, fosters personal growth, and encourages cultural exploration.
The Milwaukee Ko-Thi Dance Company, rooted in tradition, embodies artistic expression and cultural heritage through dynamic performances inspired by the African Diaspora.
Please join us in honoring these seven incredible women and their contributions to the Greater Milwaukee community!
Photo by Aliza Barzan for Milwaukee Magazine
Ko-Thi Dance Company Named as NEA CARES Act Award Recipient! - 7/1/2020
Ko-Thi was recently named one of 855 CARES Act Relief Funding recipients, chosen from a pool of over 3,100 applicants nationwide. Read more here!
From Our Founder
As the founder of Ko-Thi Dance Company, I am grateful, humbled, and sincerely overwhelmed with the tenacity, curiosity, respectfulness, and zeal with which our team has grown. They continue to reach back while setting their eyes on the future. In 2020, our country is having to deal with not only a pandemic, but also issues of systemic racism. At the core of this ongoing struggle continues to be our educational system and how we address the "true" history of America with all of its flaws and potential. How we reform, rebuild, and reconnect our relationships and definitions about what the idea of “America” truly means, and who does it include in its nest.
Ko-Thi’s SANKOFA 2020 project is imbedded with a celebration of our past, a 51 year legacy, initiated by its new generation of leadership. Using that lineage as their firm foundation on which to stand, Ko-Thi heralds in a revived respect for its legacy as a guiding force while making an audacious leap into the future.
The arts serve as our binder. It, along with a total revamping of our educational system, can become a means towards a meaningful inclusion of all cultures making it an amazing American experiment in social justice, hope, and freedom for all its citizens.
SANKOFA is the beginnings of a series of dialogues that Ko-Thi Dance Company hopes to create as we continue to contribute, inform, stimulate, educate, and preserve a rich cultural heritage.
I hope you enjoy the series.
Black Lives Matter!
Love,
Mama Ferne
KTDC Artistic Director DeMar Walker talks art, legacy, and the Sankofa Series with Shepherd Express A&E Editor John Schneider
New Class Schedule Announced for 2022
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