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Agbehoun

Agbehoun est le nom d'une danse acrobatique sur bambou traditionnellement pratiquée au Bénin.

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Agbehoun est le nom d'une danse acrobatique sur bambou traditionnellement pratiquée au Bénin.

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PhilatélieEn 1975 la poste de la République du Dahomey émet un timbre de 40 F intitulé « Agbehoun.
Liens externes9e édition du festival-performance de la danse sur bambou, présenté par la Compagnie AGBE de Houèdo, court-métrage réalisé par Claude Balogoun, produit par Gangan Prod, février 2019, 13 min 21 s
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Agbehoun est le nom d'une danse acrobatique sur bambou traditionnellement pratiquée au Bénin.

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Agbehoun est le nom d'une danse acrobatique sur bambou traditionnellement pratiquée au Bénin. 1

Philatélie

En 1975 la poste de la République du Dahomey émet un timbre de 40 F intitulé « Agbehoun. Danse sur bambou ». 1

Liens externes

9e édition du festival-performance de la danse sur bambou, présenté par la Compagnie AGBE de Houèdo, court-métrage réalisé par Claude Balogoun, produit par Gangan Prod, février 2019, 13 min 21 s 1

Portail de la danse Portail du Bénin 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Agbehoun”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Agbehoun is recorded in open cultural data. The structured record cited below does not describe the practice, and this entry has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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