Fanga is a dance of welcome that came to the United States from a place the United States founded: the West African nation of Liberia. Liberia was a new nation carved out of traditional territories to house former enslaved Africans in the U.S. that wanted to return to Africa.
The mimed, storytelling dance "Fanga" was made part of the repertoire of the African American concert dance pioneer Asadata Dafora in the 1930s, and then passed down to New York dancer/choreographer Pearl Primus who went to Liberia herself in the late 1940s to learn the dance/rhythm, and came back to stage it in the US. The choreography then moved on to Alvin Ailey's dance company and it has since become part of US African, and now drum circle, culture.
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