| TAKAMBA: DANCE OF THE DESERT |
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This is our last piece on the dancing from Festival Du Desert. Both the women and men performed a dance called the Takamba. This is a form of dance we had not seen in the US. It is a very melodic dance and can be performed from either a standing position or seated. It seems to be primarily danced by the Songhai people and others in Northern Mali and Niger. We were told by Djenaba Sako that the women are telling love stories in the dance, while the men are challenging each other. Drums, chanting and hand claps drive the dancing. The rhythm is almost hypnotic. We have a short segment of the group TARTIT dancing the Takamba on the main festival stage on the last night. The first part is seated and the second is from standing positions. There are also other small clips of the dance already on You Tube. In one the women are dancing across the floor. In the other, the person filming catches part of the men's seated dance although he is obviously interested in other things at the scene. |
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