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Ntetan Dance Company

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Ntetan Dance Company from Ghana!
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Fantastic drums and vocals from the African heartland! Flutes thrown in for good measure, too... Ntentan is an Akan dialect which literally means 'web' in Accra - Ghana. Ntetan Dance Company, have strong family ties to Ghanaian traditional dances and thus seek its preservation through performance. They see traditional dances as gifts from nature and a legacy to be passed on to posterity through performance. Nkabom is a local dialect that means togetherness. Its a merger of five traditional music and dance forms fused into one. It is made up of 'Nwomkor', 'Kete', 'Otofo', 'Bamaya' and 'Sohu' A 'Waka Waka' performance in Delhi by dance troupes from Seychelles, Zambia, Sudan, Ghana and Senegal at the African Festival in New Delhi. This was held on the 18th and the 19th of June 2012. African dances are well known for celebrating a zest for life and a close bond with nature. The event was held at the Kamani Auditorium Delhi! This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and admin@wildfilmsindia.com.