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Born in Paris (France) in 1961, Kadidia Viviane Doumbia obtained the Medal of Honor at the World Dance Training in Paris in 1979. She studied with Maida Withers and Nancy Johnson at the George Washington University Dance department in Washington DC, and graduated in 1985 from Regents College (now Excelsior College) in Albany with a BS degree.

Back to the Ivory Coast (West Africa), Ms. Doumbia opened a dance school and also contributed to the organization of the Dance department of the National Institute of Arts in the city capital of Abidjan.

She worked and studied with Lori Belilove of the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation in New York city, and she founded the SAKOLOLAI Dance Company. She is trained in Baroque Dance and the Feuillet Movement Notation System, and she is also received training in the Benesh Movement Notation System at the Royal Academy of Dance in London, England.

She moved her dance Company from Abidjan in the Ivory Coast to Bamako in Mali and participated to several dance festivals such as the ââ?¬Å?Festival Dense Bamako Danse 2006ââ?¬.

Ms. Doumbia worked as the choreographer of the National Ballet of Mali for two years (2004-2006) and gave dance workshops at the new Conservatory of Arts in Bamako in Mali.

Ms. Doumbia is a member of the Executive Committee of the International Dance Council CID-UNESCO and member of the Congress on Research in Dance/CORD.

Ms. Doumbia graduate from the School of Business Executives of the Ivory Coast (partner of the School of Business Executives of Paris) with a graduate degree in Business Administration.

She was president of one of the largest womenââ?¬â?¢s association of West Africa the International Womenââ?¬â?¢s Association of the Ivory Coast.

Besides being in charge of the communication for the National Womenââ?¬â?¢s Network at Amnesty International in Abidjan the capital city of the Ivory Coast, she was involved in the campaign to end ââ?¬Å?Violence against Womenââ?¬. She also coordinated the Media Planning for the TELEFOOD program of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Ms. Doumbia has been presenting papers at various conferences throughout the world and at various prestigious institutions such as Yale University, Harvard University, etc

Ms. Doumbia is actually teaching French as a second language and Dance at Rabun Gap Nacoochee School (preparatory school) in Georgia.