Tuesday, June 28, 2005
West African dances
Now the holidays are going to finish. I join office tomorrow. After coming back from Bibione, I have transferred my Hindi blog to the new page on Kalpana through Blogger.com and done the same with the English blog. I wish I can also do it for my Italian blog. Let us see if I manage to do it.
Last night I went to see the west African dance show in the Villa Angeletti garden. It was supposed to start at 9.30 PM but at 9.40, when I reached there, it was not yet started. They had set up two bars on two sides, one of which was blaring out loud music and had a hyperactive DJ. In another corner they were showing Casablanca, but its sound was dfrowned in the loud music. University students from near by Galaxy hostel thronged the place, drinking beer, chatting, smoking. At 10.30 PM, they had still not started the show. I told myself that I will wait for another 15 minutes and if they don't start, I will go away. They started just before it was time for me to leave. Some drums, not bad but not that great as well. Then there was a group of Italian girls doing the dance with their west african guruji from Guinea Konkry. It was nothing like the lovely west African dances done by Footprints international from Ghana that I had seen in January.
I am gearing up for more travel. Rome, London, Quito-Cuenca-Gauyaquil (all in Ecuador), all in July. I am sure to get good pictures for the blogs. Since the pictures from the African show are not special, here is another picture from the Bologna Per Tot festival of 11 June.
The group on environmental pollution doing the "Dance of the oil companies" during Bologna Per Tot Parade 2005
Last night I went to see the west African dance show in the Villa Angeletti garden. It was supposed to start at 9.30 PM but at 9.40, when I reached there, it was not yet started. They had set up two bars on two sides, one of which was blaring out loud music and had a hyperactive DJ. In another corner they were showing Casablanca, but its sound was dfrowned in the loud music. University students from near by Galaxy hostel thronged the place, drinking beer, chatting, smoking. At 10.30 PM, they had still not started the show. I told myself that I will wait for another 15 minutes and if they don't start, I will go away. They started just before it was time for me to leave. Some drums, not bad but not that great as well. Then there was a group of Italian girls doing the dance with their west african guruji from Guinea Konkry. It was nothing like the lovely west African dances done by Footprints international from Ghana that I had seen in January.
I am gearing up for more travel. Rome, London, Quito-Cuenca-Gauyaquil (all in Ecuador), all in July. I am sure to get good pictures for the blogs. Since the pictures from the African show are not special, here is another picture from the Bologna Per Tot festival of 11 June.
The group on environmental pollution doing the "Dance of the oil companies" during Bologna Per Tot Parade 2005Subscribe to Posts [Atom]

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