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Traditional celebrations, which include song, dance, feasting and gift-giving, are called sing-sing. Vibrant and colorful costumes adorn the dancers, while a leader and a chorus sing a staggered approach to the same song, producing a fugue -like effect.
Duk-Duk dancers in the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, 1913. Duk-Duk is a secret society, part of the traditional culture of the Tolai people of the Rabaul area of New Britain, the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea, in the South Pacific.
A sing-sing scene in Wabag, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. Sing-sing is an annual gathering of tribes or villages in Papua New Guinea. People show their distinct culture, dance and music and share traditions. Villagers paint and decorate themselves for sing-sings.
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The Goroka Show is a well-known tribal gathering and cultural event in Papua New Guinea. It is a sing-sing held every year close to the country's Independence Day (16 September) in the town of Goroka, the capital of the Eastern Highlands Province. About 100 tribes arrive to show their music, dance and culture. [1]
In particular, Papua New Guinea is world-famous for carved wooden sculpture: masks, canoes, story-boards. Many of the best collections of these are held in overseas museums. Those identified as being in the first wave of contemporary art in Papua New Guinea are: Mathias Kauage OBE (1944–2003), [ 3 ] Timothy Akis , Jakupa Ako and Joe Nalo ...
[8] [9] The Sawat Lenso joins a form or instrumental ensemble called Lenso used by Christians with Sawat music and dance brought by Muslims. [8] In Papua, one occasion to play the tifas is a Sing-sing, a gathering of a few tribes or villages in Papua New Guinea. People arrive to show their distinct culture, dance and music.
The National Theatre Company was, as its name suggests, a State-funded theatre company in Papua New Guinea. It was directed by William Takaku [1] and administered by the government's National Cultural Commission. [2] Its ambitious aim, as described by UNESCO, was "to create a Papua New Guinea cultural identity, mainly through dance and drama". [3]