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71 dances · the body as living archive

Before any word was written, the body moved. African dance carries what writing cannot: the exact weight of grief, the particular joy of harvest, the posture of negotiation between the living and the dead. Every step here is a sentence in an older language.

Browse by region below. Each entry carries the dance form, its country of origin, and — where recorded — a video of the dance in performance.

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