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    • Youth at Dance Performance

    • Youth at Dance Performance
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    • Niueans love their fiafias (parties, celebrations.) The kids from my village, Avatele, are dressed here for their dance performance for a village celebration. I think this particular one was celebrating the accomplishments of 2 Avatele villagers-...
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    • Young Kichwa Dancer

    • Young Kichwa Dancer
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    • This photo was taken on May 23, 2009 at a dance competition in Ecuador. Traditional Kichwa dances are performed at every public event in the Napo province and troupes are composed children of all ages. The dance steps describe traditional...
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    • Women's Day Celebration

    • Women's Day Celebration
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    • My school held a celebration dinner for International Women's Day, March 8th. Women's Day is a big deal in Romania. I enjoyed the dinner and dancing, after which a friend took this picture showing me and students in traditional costumes. My...
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    • Women's Custom Dance

    • Women's Custom Dance
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    • The women of the village Nereingman, Mota Lava, presented a custom dance during a cultural celebration. Unfortunately, the dance had to take place inside the village meeting house when it started raining. The leader of the group's name is Marian,...
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    • Wedding Bliss

    • Wedding Bliss
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    • The midwife at a local clinic celebrates on her wedding day in Burkina Faso. The bride is dancing with friends during a Muslim wedding celebration where friends stick money on her while singing and dancing. People all around are using technology...
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    • Walking To The Drums

    • Walking To The Drums
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    • A group of Nyau dancers of the Chewa tribe walk towards the drum circle in Zambia. During the hosting of my first site visit, I booked the local dancers for the entertainment of the new intake. Although, I really enjoyed the show as well. August...
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    • Valle Shqiptare

    • Valle Shqiptare
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    • The National Folk Festival in Albania is held every 4-5 years in the southern city of Gjirokaster, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Hosted in the city's Ottoman era castle, Albanian performers from every district of the country as well as from abroad...
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    • Uveges Tanc

    • Uveges Tanc
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    • This photo was taken in Bekescsaba, Hungary in May 1993 at a folkdance performance in the city center. Many of my students are performing in this group. You will notice the wine bottles on the heads and in the hands of the dancers. The dance...
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    • Traditional School Girl Dance

    • Traditional School Girl Dance
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    • While visiting my colleagues in Rajshahi we visited this High School (grades 6 - 10) to help one of the English Teachers. The girls and headmistress were so happy they took time before leaving for the afternoon break to give us a demonstration of...
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    • Traditional Guanacaste Dance

    • Traditional Guanacaste Dance
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    • I painted this mural of a couple dancing, in traditional Guanacaste dress, on the exterior of the primary school in La Cruz de Abangares, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. It is part of a large mural project I led with the students consisting of cultural...
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    • Traditional Dancing

    • Traditional Dancing
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    • Each year on Francophonie Day, our school celebrates the culture in Vanuatu by dressing up traditional costumes and doing traditional dances from the different regions in Vanuatu. This is a picture of me and a fellow teacher. We dressed in costumes...
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    • Traditional Dance

    • Traditional Dance
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    • Traditional dancers performed for trainees in South Africa in January 2011. The dance involved women in traditional dress stomping, clapping and parading around a set of traditional drums that were providing the music for the dance.
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    • The Play Devil and Liberian Ingenuity

    • The Play Devil and Liberian Ingenuity
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    • Music and dance are part of Liberian life. In 1972 some of the people in Kolila, Liberia where I was the first Peace Corps volunteer from 1971-1973 surprised me with a visit from the Play Devil. The sounds of one musician soon called many of the...
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    • The Bissa Can Dance!

    • The Bissa Can Dance!
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    • I attended several dance performances in my village located in Central East Bukina Faso. Here, men perform a traditional Bissa dance by placing stones in dried leaves and wrapping them around their shins. As musicians sing and play, the dancers...
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    • Strength and Joy

    • Strength and Joy
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    • This photo was taken in Koubawelkoundia, Cercle de Douentza Mali in December 2007. A few days before I left the village to do a third year in Guinea, we had a large traditional dance party to celebrate the work we had shared in. Everyone from...
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