About Afrotonic
Kwame Selormey was born in Ghana, West Africa and for over four years studied Ghanaian tribal dance and West African Cultural Values. He has performed with a number of Ghanaian groups and together with Veronique founded AFROTONIC in 2006. Kwame has a strong involvement with the African community in Australia and continues to engage with the community to find new ways of celebrating the African culture in Australia while promoting inclusion and strong links to Africa. Over the last three years he has traveled extensively to Africa and spent time in metropolitan and urban areas in Africa, refreshing the customs and traditions of his people.
Veronique Thomann discovered African Dance in her native Paris where she learned from Senegalese teacher Ana Camara. She then moved to Guadeloupe in the Caribbean and continued her training there for the next five years. Since arriving in Australia, Veronique has developed her skills as a choreographer and performer in African Dance and together with Kwame founded AFROTONIC. To expand her repertoire, Veronique continues to attend workshops in Australia and overseas with master dancers from Ivory Coast, Ghana, Congo, Guinea and Senegal. She is passionate about African Dance and loves to share with others the joy that it has brought in her life.
Christine Bernard assists Veronique & Kwame immensely with the Dance teaching and also performs with the AFROTONIC Dance Troupe. Born in France, Christine has lived all around the world for the last 20 years, has taught Modern Jazz for 15 years in various schools and presented a modern dance choreography in the 2005 South Pacific Arts Festival (Tahiti). She started training in African Dance in 2003 whilst living at the Reunion Island and since her arrival in Australia has developed her skills as an African Dance Performer. Christine loves African Dance for its rhythm its expression, energy and sharing, but also because it's a great and fun way of keeping fit.
Andrea Albini has been performing with AFROTONIC Dance Troupe for over 2 years and recently did a 1 month-intensive Dance training in Senegal where she perfected her Sabar style. Growing up in Uruguay (South America), Andrea has been dancing all her life and turned her feet to Jazz, Ballet, Rock'n'Roll and Contemporary before discovering Guinean dancing on a video whilst in Sweden. From then on she was hooked to African dancing and says she loves the amazing sense of connectedness and freedom that she feels when moving to African rhythms.

Dian Abdurachman recently joined AFROTONIC Dance Troupe and has a versatile dancing background which includes Latin Ballroom, Jaipongan, traditional West Javanese dancing as well as Flamenco. Born in Indonesia, Dian came to Perh to study in 1997 and discovered the joy of African dancing after attending a workshop with Shonah Honeyhill Sonko. She then joined AFROTONIC as a Dance Student and became so addicted (and committed!) that she grew into a confident performer. She loves African dancing for its grounding and uplifting nature, the freedom and creativity it promotes and because at a symbolic level it is also a venue to be together despite our differences.