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unusual facts about traditional dance



Kikwit

An important commercial and administrative centre, it is home to a stadium and is known for its traditional dances, in particular the Bapende dancers whose geographic origin centers around the village of Gungu.


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Azonto

Azonto is known to have originated from a traditional dance called Kpanlogo from the coastal areas like Chorkor, James Town, La, Teshie, Nungua and in the port town of Tema, all part of the Greater Accra Region.

Carnaval de Oruro

The traditional "Llama llama" or "Diablada" became the leading traditional dance of the festival.

Culture of Montenegro

The traditional dance of Montenegrins (and Herzegovinian Serbs) is called the Oro, Dinaric-Serbian venacular for Orao or "Eagle" - it also known as the Crmnički Oro - due to its believed origin in the Crmnica region.

Koffi Panou

He was participating in a traditional dance at the funeral of his mother, who had died in 1999, in Kabou, Bassar Prefecture, when he fell ill, and he died while he was being taken for treatment.

Sheila Surban

She also joined Sakari Kukko's Humbalax band with multiracial members but the name itself is based on Humppa (a Finnish traditional dance music) and Balax (a modern Senegalese dance music) and that is how the name of the band was created.

Trata

On the Tuesday following Easter in every alternate year, the women of Megara take part the traditional dance known as the Trata on the open space before the tiny church known as Saint John the Dancer.