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The Owu-Amapu-Ti which was one of the entries in the Dance Drama Category of the 10th Anniversary of the National Black Arts Festival Atlanta, Georgia USA in July 1998, traces the Origin of the American Tap Dance to the Waterside people of the lower Niger Delta Area of Nigeria.
Owu-Amapu-Ti is a Dance Drama on the rich cultural Heritage of the peoples of the Niger Delta Area.
It is also a collaborative rhythmic agreement of some of the
dance patterns of Masquerade groups of the Okrika/Ikwerre
Clan, in the lower Niger Delta area of Rivers State, Nigeria.
These dance patterns are well choreographed rhythmic waist movements and leg movements of circlet of locust beans tied round the ankles to supply rhythm according to the dancers movement which is in consonance with throbbing talking drums that calls out its admirable epithet in esoteric drum language.
The Owu-Amapu-Ti is a traditional representation / dramatic imitation of mermaid/water spirit dance.
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