Dancing Funga Alafia: A West African Welcome Dance with Nondi Wontanara

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Funga is a Liberian dance of hospitality that welcomes visitors to your home. Join performance art group Nondi Wontanara as they perform this West African tradition and provide instruction on how you can sing and move along. After learning these steps, make up your own movements to describe how you would open your space to a person you love.

Nondi Wontanara is a performance art group that started in Las Vegas in 2015. Nondi Wontanara is a phrase with Guinean origins and means “We are united in truth.” The group has been a part of the Las Vegas dance community for a combined total of 20 years. The dance and drum enthusiasts that makeup Nondi Wontanara came together to increase cultural awareness in the community through performing arts and multi-cultural dance forms.

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