DANCE AFGHANISTAN
Attan
WHERE ATTAN IS PRACTICED
STORYTELLER PROFILE
WHERE THIS STORY
WAS SUBMITTED FROM:
Hamburg, Germany
STORYTELLER'S AGE:
40
STORYTELLER'S
GENDER:
Male
STORYTELLER'S
ETHNICITY:
Pashtun
ATTAN DESCRIPTION
Attan is a very militaristic dance. Very much value lays on rotation movement in the dance, the rotation around itself and its own axis that has a certain body movement. If you can do it, it means you have a certain body control, a particular design, a certain component of physics that your body understands, and if you have not the body, then you can not perform the movement.
ATTAN PHOTOS
The Institute for the Preservation of Arts and Culture in Landi Kotal dance troupe performs Attan at at Kuch Khaas in November, 2011. Photo by The Express Tribune.
Afghan national soccer team celebrating a victory with the Attan. Photo by Edmund Chow
Attan in Kandahar. Photo by Reuters.
The Institute for the Preservation of Arts and Culture in Landi Kotal dance troupe performs Attan at at Kuch Khaas in November, 2011. Photo by The Express Tribune.
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