About

Sena is currently on study leave and a PhD candidate in Dance at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA under the Fulbright scholarship program. She is the instructor for introduction to African diasporic dance and Neo-Traditional West African dance at the Boyer collage of Music and Dance. She is also an adjunct instructor at Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Sena obtained her Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the University of Ghana in 2008 and 20015 respectively. In other to gain more insight in dance and for that matter contemporary dance, she took part in the maiden edition of the project Engagement Feminine in 2009 at CDC - La Termitiere in Ouagadougou, Burkina – Faso. Fortunately, she was part of the four ladies selected for a residency for the project dans un s’y mettre, a quartet and Ecoute ma musique, a solo both choreographed by the company Auguste – Bienvenue which were both performed in Ouagadougou and Bobo-Dioulasso. The same project had the opportunity to tour in Bordeaux in France and in Yale University in the United States. In 20011, she had the opportunity to work with the choreographer Valerie Riviere of the company Paul les Oiseaux where she was part of the trio chambre Noire which was performed in Bordeaux and at the festival Dialogues de corps in 2012 in Ouagadougou, Burkina – Faso. In 2015, I was invited by the company August – Bienvenue to create a solo piece entitled Alone! Which was performed at Alliance Française d’ Accra and at the In-Out dance festival in Burkina Faso. In 2016, she had the opportunity to work with the Bamboo centre where she co-choreographed their maiden Theatre Heritage Series dubbed wogbejeke. In 2017 she was selected to be part of the workshop, The March at Ecole de Sable in Senegal. She has also participated in the Framewalk art exchange program both in Ghana and Germany. She was privileged to work with refugees from Mali and the Northern part of Burkina – Faso and perform Gbei?! a solo performance at the 2021 edition of Dialogues de corps festival in Ouagadougou. Because of her interest in community work, Sena is currently a volunteer with the African Diasporan  Dance  and Drumming community program in Philadelphia.

Education

PhD candidate in Dance - Temple University

Master of Fine Arts degrees - University of Ghana 2015

Bachelor of Fine Art degree - University of Ghana   2008

Research Interest

Her research interest is focused on exploring women bodies in the Yeve dance-drumming among the Anlo-Ewes of Ghana. She is interested in the embodied ancestral knowledge embedded in dance forms among the Anlo-Ewes of Ghana and how such experiences can be explored for contemporary dance creation.