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 ...

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