Friday, July 2, 2010

Branson Trip (Belated post)

This is Chief Malachi right before he put the fire in his mouth.

I'm just going to post one thing today about our Branson trip.  Another day I will add to it.  The first show we went to was called Island Fire.  It was mostly dance done by Island dancers from Samoa, Tahiti, etc.  The last thing was pretty impressive, but we couldn't get any good pictures of it since our camera wasn't fancy enough to handle it.  The room was pretty dark while the island men were doing a fire dance.  They were flinging those firey torches all over the place.

Before the Tahitian hula the lady that introduced it said that the Hawaiian hula dancers told the story by using their hands; the Tahitian dancers tell the story by using their hips.  You need to keep your eyes on their hips.  Then they came out and really did some fast gyrations.  Alan turned to me and said, "Where was it that we were supposed to keep our eyes?"  I thought you might appreciate that.

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