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Tafsut Imazighen, meaning "Berber Spring" is a dance group of young women who perform traditional Kabyle dance with touches of contemporary choreography. They are performing here for annual Yennayer celebration held at Murmrr Theater in Prospect heights, Brooklyn. Yennayer is the indigenous new year for North Africans.

 

Community: 
Esraa Warda
Traditions: 

Dance

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Marvarid Uzbek Dance Group performs Traditional Uzbek Taskhkent wedding dance at the Brighton Beach Public Library

Traditions: 

Dance

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Marvarid Uzbek Dance group performs Traditional Uzbek Khorezm style dance performed at Brighton Beach Library 

Traditions: 

Dance

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"Slava Tebye Bozha (Glory to You Lord)" - a call-and response field song ending in a wedding ceremony. Valentina Kvasova adds to the description in an interview at Brooklyn Arts Council 

Traditions: 

Music

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"Kolechko (Ring)" - a lyrical tune about a ring symbolising the strained relations between two lovers is shared by Cossack singer Valentina Kvasova at the Brooklyn Roots Festival 2019. 

Traditions: 

Music

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The Street Musical Club performs Changsheng Temple on July 7th at the Salvation Army in Bensonhurst and interview with Ng Yee Chuk. 

Traditions: 

Music

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Wakhi speaker Rahila Babar, originally from Upper Hunza in Pakistan but now living in New York, sings a Khowari song, accompanied by musician Shahid Ahmed Khan

Traditions: 

Music

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Wakhi speaker Rahila Babar, originally from Upper Hunza in Pakistan but now living in New York, sings a famous Wakhi song, accompanied by musician Shahid Ahmed Khan.

 

Traditions: 

Music

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Bnat Houariyat, (The girls of Houara) presents a style of Houara (also known as T’houarit) reserved for women.

Community: 
Esraa Warda
Traditions: 

Music

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