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Aḥwash (Neo-Tifinagh: , IPA /æħwæʃ/, also Romanized as or ) is a Shilha style of collective performance, including dance, singing, poetry and percussion, from southern Morocco. The ''ahwash'' is performed on the occasion of local festivals as a celebration of the community. Description The ahwash is usually performed by two large groups of people, typically men and women on opposite sides, who alternate their performances of song, dance, poetry, and drumming on frame drums. The ahwash is rarely performed outside of individual villages, because of the difficulty of transporting the large number of participants (often more than twenty, and sometimes 150 or more). As a result, the ahwash has developed somewhat independently among different villages, and the details of the performances differ. History Ahwash may have come from Telouet , though historians have struggled to conclusively determine its origins, because of the lack of written history. Some believe the dance migra ...
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