A Chechen dance group performed to audiences at a Kings Langley school last week.
Acrobatics, sword-throwing and musical mantras were displayed at Rudolf Steiner School by ‘Daimohk’, a 33-strong dance group from Chechnya.
Before taking to the stage, the performers - aged between eight and 18 - held a workshop with the school’s students so they could learn some traditional moves.
This was the second time they had visited the Langley Hill school.
Folk dancer Ramzan Akhmatov set up Daimohk, meaning 'ancestral land' in Chechen, in 1999 just before the most recent war began in Chechnya.
He wanted to give a generation of children surrounded by violence a positive creative focus and an outlet for emotional self-expression.
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