She studied with Roberto Borrell during the 80's and is another one who has danced with all the NY groups. They could refer you. The following are some excerpts I have selected from John Miller Chernoff's book, African Rhythm and African Sensibility. African music and dance are not performed as an unrestrained emotional expression. Like a drummer, a dancer should not try to do too much or he will lose clarity or become pretentious.
Expert art makes for effortlessness even in the most fantastic displays.
The elders, to put it most simply, participate best because they know more dead people, and their drumming and dancing will communicate and contribute their greater awareness of the deepest moral forces which can serve to bind the living community.