And the center, today, is a place where the estimated 400, 000 Phoenix-area residents with Irish heritage can learn about their culture, including traditional foods, music and dance.

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The music likely to be performed there is marrabenta, a mix of traditional and urban dance music that was born in the capital.

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He has travelled to Europe to buy and bring home Balinese paintings and weavings collected during the time of Dutch colonial influence over Indonesia - in the 19th and early 20th century - and has set up schools for local children to learn traditional forms of dance, music and painting.

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For the past six years, the director has put most of his energies into his Flying Circus Theater, which he describes as a "laboratory" to enable performers from diverse Asian disciplines to experiment with a variety of mediums including video, traditional dance and music from half a dozen countries within a single production.

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Falconry forms the basis of a wider cultural heritage, including traditional dress, food, songs, music, poetry and dance, sustained by the communities and clubs that practise it.

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Falconry forms the basis of a wider cultural heritage, including traditional dress, food, songs, music, poetry and dance, all of which are sustained by the communities and clubs that practise it.

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The event was a "second-line parade, " a traditional celebration in New Orleans in which people listen to music and dance in the streets.

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Peking Opera, also known as Jingju, is a form of traditional Chinese theatre which combines music, vocal performance, mime, dance and acrobatics.

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The art of Azerbaijani Ashiqs combines poetry, storytelling, dance and vocal and instrumental music into a traditional performance art that stands as a symbol of Azerbaijani culture.

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Their art is considered an emblem of national identity and the guardian of The art of Azerbaijani Ashiqs combines poetry, storytelling, dance and vocal and instrumental music into a traditional performance art that stands as a symbol of Azerbaijani culture.

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Take traditional African instruments, electrify them and set them to a dance beat that resembles club music, electronica or trance.

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