Every Friday in spring and autumn some hundred people team up at Plaça del Rei to celebrate one of Barcelona's best-kept secret parties; a gathering of dance and upbeat folk songs played by musicians with traditional instruments in a medieval square. This year sees the 10th year anniversary.
Baisakhi Festival marks joy and merry making which falls in second week of April and brings the entire country together.
The Galata Mevlevihanesi is the first lodge of Whirling dervishes in Istanbul, was built in 1491 by Iskender Pasha, the Governor General and Imperial Guard Chief of Sultan Bayezit II. The complex was damaged by a big fire in 1766 and was restored by Sultan Mustafa III to its present form.
Rockers dance to the music of a popular Turkish rock-band in the early-afternoon at the yearly Barisarock free festival in Istanbul (Rock for Peace).
A group of boys perform a traditional dance during the first Kannawidan Ylocos (Ilocos Culture) Festival in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, Philippines last January 2008.
A group of boys perform a traditional dance during the first Kannawidan Ylocos (Ilocos Culture) Festival in Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, Philippines last January 2008.
An annual dance is performed in Mambo-Bafut. I am invited as guests of honour by chief Wankie.
Around five o'clock in the afternoon chief Wanki takes a seat on his thrown.
Every Friday in spring and autumn some hundred people team up at Plaça del Rei to celebrate one of Barcelona's best-kept secret parties; a gathering of dance and upbeat folk songs played by musicians with traditional instruments in a medieval square.
On these evenings it breathes tradition and magic.
International contemporary dance festival in Vilnius, Lithuania, brings great acts that break the rules and have big attraction.