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DANCE AFGHANISTAN
Bacha Bazi
THE STORY Bachi bazi - I think it is also important that women are involved in the equation and that they make it more complicated. After...
Qataghani
THE STORY In these solo dances, one person dances and the other people stand around encouraging the dancer through clapping. It’s a shame...
Attan
THE STORY Attan is a symbol of unity. It not only belongs to a single province but to all of Afghanistan. In the north, some Attan...
Waltz
THE STORY I came to Germany in 1992, but I left Afghanistan in the mid-‘80s because I was sent with the Afghan government to study in...
Attan
THE STORY At the Hamburger-Afghanistan Woche (a German-Afghan conference about Afghanistan), I've learned in the course of this seminar...
Disco Dancing
THE STORY I was from the beginning shy, and at some point when I was in Germany trying to go to the disco, I had anxiety because I just...
B-Boying
THE STORY In the last 10 years I have not danced. I guess as of age 27, I dance simply less. I used to dance regularly at the weekend,...
Attan
THE STORY Attan is a very militaristic dance. Very much value lays on rotation movement in the dance, the rotation around itself and its...
Mazari
THE STORY Mazari dance, that is in the north, in Mazar-e-Sharif. In Loghar, for example, Loghari or Qata Ghani are danced. Though these...
Attan
THE STORY There are in Afghanistan primarily those typical Afghan dance where people are in a circle. That's mainly in the Pashtun...
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