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Dance is any language. (Young Dancer[R]).

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-JUN-03
Format: Online - approximately 911 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Dance is any language. (Young Dancer[R]).(Abdou N''Dir)(Biography)

Article Excerpt
Abdou N'Dir's odyssey from a farming village in Africa to the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance School in Denver, Colorado, began when he was only 7. That's when he met Judy Beggs Pierson, the first blonde woman he had ever seen. A lawyer from Denver with a grown daughter and a bad case of wanderlust, Pierson traveled to Gueoul (pronounced GAY-ool), a village of 2,000 in Senegal, as a Peace Corps member in 1990. After unpacking her bags in the spare room at N'Dir's grandmother's house, she settled in to do what she came to do--find problems to solve. One of the first things she set about fixing was N'Dir.

Three years earlier a car had hit him and broken his right leg. When Pierson met him, he had infections in both legs and could take...

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