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  • Dancing and singing followed a totem raising ceremony. Tlinglet leaders dressed in colorful traditional clothing for a historic totem raising where seven totem poles were   placed in a Native Alaskan park in Klawock. Many of the 1000 Native Alaskans moved indoors to a gymnasium where festivities continued throughout the day.
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  • A father watches his son BBoy dancing, a young, urban culture expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance. Their living room floor is a perfect space to practice difficult hip hop moves.
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  • A father takes to the floor of the living room in their home as he shows his son moves to try when BBoy dancing. Young, urban culture is expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance similar to hip hop.
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  • A father skilled in BBoy dancing helps his son practice difficult move in a Quito park. A young, urban culture celebrates hip hop expressed through rhythmic music and acrobatic dance.
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  • Dancing in a Barcelona nightclub.
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  • Salsa dancing class.
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  • Women dancing in a Petropavlovsk nightclub.
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  • Disco lights and dancing and drinking at a club in Shanghai.
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  • Disco lights and dancing at a club in Shanghai.
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  • Dancing at a pick up club for mistresses and male prostitutes.
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  • Dancing in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • Women dance in a Petropavlovsk nightclub, Nebo Night Club. This club is possible in Yelizovo because the owner owns a fish processing plant and enjoys having his own club where young people like to congregate.
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  • Flashing neon strobe lights electrify the dance floor creating a hypnotic scene at a bar scene attracting young people in Shanghai.
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  • Young people dance under neon lights in the Armani Club in the Liu lin Road area. Bars are a little crazier in south China where there is an abundance of new wealth.
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  • A Zapotec Indian woman in traditional clothing serves food to wedding guests while others dance into the night. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. <br />
Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government. <br />
The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s.  This party was complete with traditional food and dancing. After the church wedding, the couple walked through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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  • The Armani Club is in the Liu lin Road area attract a scene of young people.
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  • Rain did not stop the celebrations of dancing and singing that followed a historic totem raising ceremony on Prince of Wales Island.<br />
Generations of Tlingit and Haida Native Alaskans retain strong cultural ties with the natural world reflected in their totem art depicting whales and bears.
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  • This is a pick up club for mistresses and there is a room of male prostitutes that get signaled to come over to a table where the women will choose.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Kara women dance as their sons prepare for a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Nyangatom women dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Men and women of the Kara tribe dance at a bull jumping initiation.
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  • Kara boys and girls dance at a celebration.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Kara men, women and children participate in an evening dance.
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  • Men, women and children of the Kara tribe gather for an evening dance.
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  • Nyangatom women prepare to dance at a peace treaty celebration.
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  • Kara women dance as their sons prepare for initiation into manhood.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher shows dance moves of sea goddess Yemaya.
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  • Dancers perform acrobatic moves while practicing BBoy or breaking, a hip hop style of street dance. The groups of young teens mix modern dance moves with indigenous influences. They are athletic and work hard perfecting their dance steps.
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  • A BBoy dance group shows the influence of their indigenous background through colorful knitted masks. The Ecuadorian teens work out dance moves and perform on the streets in Quito.
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  • Young dancers perform acrobatic moves while practicing BBoy or breaking, a hip hop style of street dance. The talented group mixes indigenous influences with modern dance steps and were brought together by a Ecuadorian choreographer interested in helping them navigate the cultural landscape. He helped find them a space to practice and oversees their rehearsals in Quito.
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  • An Afro-Cuban dance teacher looks out toward the ocean.
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  • Members of a BBoy dance group warm up at rehearsal. The dancers mix indigenous influences with modern dance moves and practice their daring routines in the basement of a building in old Quito.
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  • Friends dance and listen to music at the bar at Cafe d'Mongo's Speakeasy.
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  • A newly married couple dances on Mendenhall Glacier. They took a helicopter onto the icefield and celebrated after the ceremony. Although dressed in traditional wedding formal wear, they were careful to step over the melting ice in their crampons.
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  • After costumed revelers parade through the streets, the bachelor men enter homes to visit neighbors during Carnival. They sing songs and dance with a widow who came back to the village to enjoy the festivities.
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  • Students and a teacher dance at a high school prom.
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  • Bar patrons dance among flashing red, blue and purple neon lights at a nightclub in Quito.
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  • Young people dance to music at a bar in a district full of clubs that attract night life in Quito.
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  • Dancers perform acrobatic moves while practicing BBoy or breaking, a hip hop style of street dance. The gravity defying moves are a large part of their appeal.
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  • Dancers perform acrobatic moves while practicing BBoy or breaking, a hip hop style of street dance. The one girls dancer performs a number of moves similar to a gymnast.
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  • Zapotec Indian women wearing colorful, traditional clothing dance into the night at a wedding party in the streets of Juchitan, Mexico. Weekends are full of wedding celebrations in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the narrow and flat part of the country where the Zapotec culture is still strong. Women are noticeably open and confident, taking a leading role in business and government in matrilineal traditions. The Isthmus never became part of the Aztec Empire and resistance to the Spanish was strong in the mid-1500s. After the church wedding, the couple walks through the streets of town following musicians. They collect family and carry food to where the street is blocked off for the party.
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  • Waving whips, clubs, and traditional stools, Daasanach men dance their way into a crowd of potential wives at a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A Daasanach man dances his way into a crowd of potential wives at a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • Dance classes in Li Zi Park.
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  • A devout Muslim mendicant dances during a festival of lights,  in Lahore, Pakis tan.
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  • A newly married couple dances while wearing crampons and formal attire as they celebrate on Mendenhall Glacier. Many passengers arrive on cruise ships making tourism the fastest growing industry in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Waving whips, clubs, and traditional stools, Daasanach men dance their way into a crowd of potential wives at a pairing off ceremony in Ileret.
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  • A man and woman dance at a restaurant.
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  • Dance classes in Li Zi Park.
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  • Pygmy boys dance wear leaves on their mouths for silence as they go through a manhood initiation called nKumbi.  They wear ceremonial skirts for their circumcision ceremonies, and when the ritual is completed, the skirts will hang in the trees at the entrance to their village in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<br />
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Pygmies are nomadic hunter-gatherers who rely on a healthy forest to survive. They have no claim to their own home territory, however, because the colonial Belgians assigned land rights only to sedentary groups
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  • The Bale ceremony is precursor to the Guol ceremony which is a young woman's path to womanhood. The male asks the female to partner and previously she did not have the right to refuse. But there have been changes and the parents will now pay attention to their daughter's wishes.
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  • BBoy dancers stop traffic with their acrobatic moves on a city street in Old Quito. Hip hop is popular with young people in Ecuador, and these guys are members of a dance troupe that performs around the city.
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  • Partygoers cheer as the groom searches for his bride's garter.<br />
He lifted the bride and carried her into the warm glowing heart. They danced  and the lights came up and the festivities continued with hands-free-garter-diving in a heart-shaped flaming border of love. It is a tradition in Kamchatka, Russia.
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  • Dressed in colorful traditional clothing, Tlingit tribe leaders celebrate after a ceremony involving six totem poles that were raised in a Native Alaskan local park.
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  • Men watch a dancer at a bar.
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  • A dancer at a bar.
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  • Masaai men celebrate the end of the weeks-long orpul ritual.
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  • A ballerina takes a turn on the wooden stage at the Del Norte County Fair.
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  • Masaai men celebrate the end of the weeks-long orpul ritual.
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  • Mbuti boys wear grass skirts during their circumcision ceremony.
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  • Wedding ceremony near Lokichar in an area called Natur.
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  • Kara children kick up dust during a bull jumping celebration.
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  • A man and his daughter clowning around.
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  • Mendicants or beggar pilgrims at a town fair.
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  • A wedding is celebrated Rapa Nui style with traditions followed by some tourists on Easter Island.
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  • Students and the young newly employed at a nightclub in Kampala.
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  • Women sing out 'Stop in the Name of Love' in the spot where Diana Ross recorded the song.
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  • Costumed young dancers move to the beat of a young drummer who blends African and Peruvian rhythms in their living room. The family descended from slaves brought to work in the area's cotton plantations.
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  • Wedding ceremony near Lokichar in an area called Natur.
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  • The Kalacha Cultural Festival.
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  • Gatherings such as this wedding celebration are important ceremonial occasions for tribesmen living around Lake Turkana.
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  • Gatherings such as this wedding celebration are important ceremonial occasions for tribesmen living around Lake Turkana.
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  • Gatherings such as this wedding celebration are important ceremonial occasions for tribesmen living around Lake Turkana.
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  • Gatherings such as this wedding celebration are important ceremonial occasions for tribesmen living around Lake Turkana.
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  • Gatherings such as this wedding celebration are important ceremonial occasions for tribesmen living around Lake Turkana.
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  • Gatherings such as this wedding celebration are important ceremonial occasions for tribesmen living around Lake Turkana.
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  • Wedding ceremony near Lokichar in an area called Natur.
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  • Wedding ceremony near Lokichar in an area called Natur.
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  • Wedding ceremony near Lokichar in an area called Natur.
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  • Gatherings such as this wedding celebration are important ceremonial occasions for tribesmen living around Lake Turkana.
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  • A family has a fourth day ceremony for a newborn child.
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  • A mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
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  • A mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
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  • Russian Dancers in Mingzhu Park during the October holiday.
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  • A dragon dance for promotional purposes on East Nanjing Road.
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