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| GOBI/BELLA - Is one of the most popular wedding ceremonial dance perform among the Wangara and Banda immigrant settlers in Wenchi, located in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. This piece has two main parts: Gobi which displays beautiful undulating movements in the trunk of the body and Bela, which involves exciting jumps and kicks. |
| KPATSA - Is a puberty ceremonial dance. Young Ga-Adamgme and krobo women of southern Ghana perform this dance prior to marriage. If a girl refuses to acknowledge this customs and tradition before marriage, she will not be accepted the community or the family. |
| GAKPA - This is an arrangement of ewe rhythms by Francis Kofi used to accompany hatsiatsia songs which are sung as an interlude in long performances. |
| KASSAH - A harvest dance from upper Region of Ghana, performed by Lobi people. Market days are appropriate occasions for the performance of Kassah. Kassah is an exuberant romantic social dance when the women also show appreciation of hard labor to their husbands. |
| GELE - Is a recreational dance from Northern Togo. This dance was created by youth of Kotonkoli ethnic group, to celebrate the full moon. Gele is now become popular dance in Kotonkoli and other ethnics in the northern community in Togo. |
| SIKYI - Is a recreational dance of Akan youth which developed between the two world wars and was revitalized in the early 1960’s. It is used at festivals, naming ceremony of a new born baby and other social gatherings. |
| FUME FUME - Is a piece that shows off virtuostic drumming and dancing. It has its hybrid roots in a piece from Benin, has some relation to Ewe piece Gbalagba. And also some Ga elements added. Folklore groups have adapted it for their contemporary purposes, featuring the sound of djembe drum. The famous Ga drummer Mustapha Tetteh Addy helped popularized the piece in Ghana. |
| FANAMFE - Is a ceremonial piece from Burkina-Faso, which has an influence of Kikilambe. This piece is performed to demonstrate braveness. |
| KPANLOGO - Is a recreational rhythm and dance of Ga youth. It was created around 1962 in Bukom area of Jamestown, a suburb of Accra. “Kpaalogo was the name of a girl in a folktale told to the originator of this dance rhythm, Ooto Lincoln, by his grandfather. Lincoln and friends put that name to a new musical pattern they were developing based on other patterns popular at the time. Kpaalogo has its roots in Oge music introduced to Accra by Liberian Kru sailors, an earlier Ga rhythm called Kolomashie, and highlife music. |
| ADAMPA - This poignant rhythm describes the pain of losing one’s life mate “painful” through deception. It advises, find your own lover. Teach one another what you want. Satisfy each other. Live like brothers and sisters. |