Monday we had a dance troupe from Pekanbaru come to school and perform a dance from Western Sumatra called Plate Dancing. It comes from the party the farmers would hold after they had harvested all of their rice. They would dance around with the empty dishes. The crazy part about this is that at one point the male dancers were jumping up and down barefoot on the broken shards of plates. Amazingly no blood!
After the performance they invited the kids down to learn a few moves. Kade and Sydney both were brave enough to head down there and give it a whirl. Neither of them dropped a plate while learning their craft. That cannot be said for all of those receiving lessons. Several plates were lost but it was all in good fun.
Sydney did a great job moving the plates around her body without dropping it.
"You want me to do what with that plate?"
Real Glass, Real Feet, Real Crazy!
Our Guests.
Very elaborate outfits.
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