The map above shows how dances emerge from historical migrations of people and how dances themselves migrate as people move.

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As dances are transmitted from teacher to student, from performers to the community, cross cultural knowledge of the "music, movement, language, dramatic enactment, visual arts, symbolism, philosophy, religion, cosmology, cosmogony, science, spirituality, technology, customs and institutions" is communicated between cultures from different places. 

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To read more about many of the dances listed in the map, see Pascal Yao Younge's book depicted to the left and click this button to see the Resources page on this website.

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