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What is the most distinctive dance of Okinawa, Japan? What are the characteristics?

The dance shows Okinawan characteristics, it is an unarmed dance, and the choreographer has really put a lot of effort into making the unarmed movements danceable. This dance is very different from the women's dance in the way it is performed, which is soft in its rigidity and rough but not rough. The performers are generally young people of 24 or 25 years old who have gone through the stages of performing the Wakasa Odori dance at the age of 15 or 16, and the female dance at the age of 20.