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    • Women's Custom Dance

    • Women's Custom Dance

    • Traditional dress; Dance

    • 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,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Honduran Folkloric Dance

    • Honduran Folkloric Dance

    • Dance; Celebrations

    • One of my favorite experiences as a Peace Corps Volunteer has been to witness and take part in the various festivals and celebrations in my community. Folkloric dance dates back to the colonial times, but still holds a lot of importance today....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance Lessons

    • Dance Lessons

    • Dance; Traditional dress

    • I took this picture of my wife while she was learning traditional dances with some local children. We are serving together in Costa Rica.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance Class in Guatemala

    • Dance Class in Guatemala

    • Dance; Teachers and students

    • For six months, I taught dance class after school for interested students in the urban area of my municipality. All the girls would get tired of the repetition of flamenco footwork, so to keep them motivated I ended dance class with freestyle...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance with the devil

    • Dance with the devil

    • Dance

    • Taken at Tokpombu Nongowa, a village on Dama Road just south of Kenema in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone. Here the local Bondo Devil stops to dance with a villager. My wife, Susan, is in the picture - she is in the back on the left. This was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Moldovan Tradional Dance

    • Moldovan Tradional Dance

    • Dance; Weddings

    • I took this picture on 7/22/2010 in Moldova. In the picture are dancers dressed in traditional Moldovan dress during a wedding. They are dancing the "hora," Moldovan national dance.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Local Dance

    • Local Dance

    • Dance; Youth

    • Four teenage villagers are dancing for an audience at an event in Tsivangiana. Tsivangiana is located on the east coast of Madagascar. The photo was taken in 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dogon Dance

    • Dogon Dance

    • Dance

    • This photo was taken on December 24, 2010 in Dogon Country, Mali. These men were beginning to do a traditional dance. I didn't realize that they would be coming down from the rocks and caught this picture after looking up from tying my shoe.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Christmas dance competition LESOTHO

    • Christmas dance competition LESOTHO

    • dance; celebrations

    • A wonderful Christmas tradition in hot December LESOTHO were dance competitions, where teens of two towns competed against one another for a title of best dancers. In 2008, these teens in Ha Makebe, not too far from the capital city of Maseru, had...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Bissa Can Dance!

    • The Bissa Can Dance!

    • Dance

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dance Party

    • Dance Party

    • youth development; dance

    • This photo is taken in my village. For over a year I have been working with a youth club which focuses on lifeskills education and girls' empowerment. To commemorate one year together as a group, we had a party complete with a talent show. In this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Dance

    • Traditional Dance

    • dance; traditional dress

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning to dance

    • Learning to dance

    • Dance; Host community friends

    • July 2008. This photo was taken in the town of Rio San Juan. My friend and I got creative to compensate for the difference in our height. I thank my small group of friends in Los Chiles who taught me how to dance to salsa, merengue, bachata, and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Caravan of Support, May 2012

    • Caravan of Support, May 2012

    • HIV/AIDS; Dance

    • This is a photo from a caravan style publicity parade for an event with the CECOJE (Center for youth counseling and peer education - particularly surrounding health) in Guinea, that my partner organization, Population Services International, and I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Drumming up Support

    • Drumming up Support

    • HIV/AIDS; Celebrations; Dance

    • This is a photo from a caravan style publicity parade for an event with the CECOJE (Center for youth counseling and peer education - particularly surrounding health) in Mamou, Guinea, that I and my partner organization Population Services...
    • Volunteer Photos

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