It has become our schedule now. We check at the reception, talk to some people and check out whats happening in Dodoma today. And someone told us that Kilimani club will have Live Music program today.
We were back from a soccer match, and were in no mood to go out again. So, we decide to stay at hotel and to our surprise we see that a group was playing some music in our hotel itself. There was a group that started playing drums and only drums. They had 3 or 4 different types of drums. And if I get it right, they were playing "Bongo Flava" music. Then there you go. A group of dancers, well I do not know if dancers is what you call them .. appear in their special tribal looking costumes. A group of 4 men, 3 women dancing to the tunes of ‘Bongo Flava’ set the stage. The set up was to depict a short story in dance form. The group was organized in 3 couple and 1 master kind of formation where 3 couple dance in some formation and 1 master dictate some terms.
They started the second dance with their face painted with while strips, carrying spears and beaded strings and dancing all around. The story telling went on depict some heroics. A part of dance involved fire dance. Women were carrying fire pots on their heads and men dancing around them.
The best part was towards the end when they started showing those fire tricks. They were playing with fire they way we play with colors in Holi. I must say it was pretty impressive but.. but .. to beat them all, our fireeater from Japan dares to rub those fire sticks on his hands. Well, the performers found a match. The next challenge came when they brought those small fireballs (made of cloths soaked in oil) and they were picking each fireball full of flame and extinguishing the fire by putting them in mouth. And here we go. Roku picks one fire ball and puts it in his mouth without a single sign of hesitation. We were all stunned. And he smiles and says, if they can do it, so can I. Japan Zindabad.
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