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Yeko Ladzekpo-Cole
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choreographer, instructor, musician
Yeko Ladzekpo-Cole has been dancing since the age of 3. Born into a family of drummers, dancers, and composers from the country of Ghana, West Africa, Yeko has continued to carry on the tradition of performing and teaching the various regional styles of Ghanaian Music and Dance. Earning her BFA degree in Dance Yeko has had a wide range of exposure to many different ethnic music and dance styles. Through her years of travel domestically and abroad teaching, lecturing and performing, she has developed her own unique palette that incorporates traditional with non traditional, similar to her own upbringing of being born and raised in America, while growing up in a traditional African household. Her career has led her to work with the likes of Lula Washington, Debbie Allen, Ralph Lemon and many others in the Modern dance world. She has also lent her choreographic talents to Disney’s The Lion King II movie premiere and DreamWorks’ Madagascar Escape II Africa.
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Teaching / Instruction
2017 - 2019
Instructor
Aug 2012 - Apr 2019
Santa Clarita, USA
Taught Ghanaian Drumming and Dance as part of an in-school curriculum program for Grades K-6.
Program Manager, Co-Artistic Director, Teacher
Sep 2019 - present
Santa Clarita, USA
I am co-director of the World Music Performance program. I oversee and manage the Faculty as well as guide students in the program. I also teach curriculum for the African Music Specialization that BFA & MFA students in the World Music program are required to take.
Dance Companies / Groups
Company Member, Dance & Performance Lead, Assistant Artistic Director
1987 - 2002
Company Member, Dance & Performance Lead, Assistant Artistic Director
1987 - 2002
San Fernando, USA
Live / Stage Performances
Choreographer, Dancer, Creative Director
2022
Los Angeles, USA
with Walt Disney Concert Hall/REDCAT
Choreographer, Dancer
2019
Los Angeles, USA
with Africa in America, Kara Mack
Television
Online
Choreographer, Dancer, Creative Director
2021
Palo Alto, USA
Video- "Grace Unbound"
Yeko Ladzekpo-Cole has been dancing since the age of 3. Born into a family of drummers, dancers, and composers from the country of Ghana, West Africa, Yeko has continued to carry on the tradition of performing and teaching the various regional styles of Ghanaian Music and Dance. Earning her BFA degree in Dance Yeko has had a wide range of exposure to many different ethnic music and dance styles. Through her years of travel domestically and abroad teaching, lecturing and performing, she has developed her own unique palette that incorporates traditional with non traditional, similar to her own upbringing of being born and raised in America, while growing up in a traditional African household. Her career has led her to work with the likes of Lula Washington, Debbie Allen, Ralph Lemon and many others in the Modern dance world. She has also lent her choreographic talents to Disney’s The Lion King II movie premiere and DreamWorks’ Madagascar Escape II Africa.
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