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February 12, 2010 |
Dance around the world, part II
We humans are natural dancers - bodies in rhythmic motion completely alone, or in groups large and small, or in front of an audience. Dancers can communicate ideas, preserve cultural identities, strengthen social bonds, or just have a lot of fun. Collected here is another recent group of photographs of us, human beings around the world, professional and amateur, in motion for all of the reasons above and more. [Previously: Dance around the world, part I] (35 photos total)

Children in a camp for homeless families in the Belair section of Port-au-Prince, Haiti practice capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, music and dance on Sunday Jan. 24, 2010. The program, run by Viva Rio, a Brazilian nongovernmental organization, is designed to help children affected by the Jan. 12 earthquake, recover their emotional well-being. (AP Photo/Paul Jeffery, Act Alliance) #

Bulgarian dancer known as a "kukeri" attends a ritual dance during the International Festival of the Masquerade Games in Pernik near Sofia, on January 30, 2010. The three-day festival, which started on January 29, has participants sporting multi-colored masks, covered with beads, ribbons and woolen tassels whlie the main dancer, ladened with bells to drive away sickness and evil spirits, sways like a wheat spikelet heavy with grain. (NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP/Getty Images) #

Pakistani eunuch dancer Roomia, dances during a wedding as the bride, Nazia watches the performance in Rawalpindi on January 9, 2010. Mocked, pitied and disowned by society, Pakistan's eunuchs are usually reduced to earning a living on the streets begging or prostituting themselves. Once granted a favoured status in the Mughal empire's court, they are traditionally paid to help celebrate the birth of a son, or to dance at weddings. But in Muslim Pakistan, where sexual relations outside marriage are taboo and homosexuality is illegal, eunuchs are also treated as sex objects and often become the victims of violent assault. (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images) #

A rehearsal of the new theater production "1433 - The Grand Voyage", directed and designed by American theater master Robert Wilson, is performed in Taipei, Taiwan, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. The elaborate musical theater work, inspired by the story of mariner adventurer Admiral Zheng He, creates a synthesis of theater, percussion, martial arts and meditation. (AP Photo/Wally Santana) #
More links and information
Momix Dance Company - Official site
Dance around the world, part I - Big Picture, 6/19/09