Dances with the stick
4 dances from around the world that are danced to the stick.
🇮🇳 IndiaAlamikkali
A shared Muharram ritual dance of house visits and fire rolling in south IndiaFolk dance · Group · Procession
🇰🇪 KenyaOhangla
A fast-paced hip dance of the Luo people in Kenya, accompanied by multiple drums.Folk dance
🇧🇷 Brazil and 1 moreRoda
A circular formation for Afro-Brazilian dance, music, and martial arts in Brazil and Angola.War or martial dance · Circle
🇺🇸 United StatesRing shout
A sacred African American circle dance performed in a counterclockwise direction with clapping and shuffling.Ritual dance · Circle
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Roda: Ricardo André Frantz ( User:Tetraktys ), CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Alamikkali: Vijayanrajapuram, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Ring shout: Attributed to John Rose, Public domain, source