1- Ray Cirino looks on as the first Mudancers squirm
Ray arranged barrels of water, tarps, and a pyramid from which to photograph crowds of happy people wallowing in the mud.
2- A new dancer gets mudded down
3- Drummers accomanying the festivities
Including Grady and Pepe.
4- Choreographed events
Ray directed us through a series of mandalas, writhing circles, and so forth.
5- Papa Wu and friends
Once again Wu led much of the carryings-on. Was this moment choreographed? Had to say.
6- Choreography breaks up
Chaos happens.
7- Oil dance
For Mudance Phase 2 we washed off the mud (using Ray's Water Woman sculpture as shower), then put on fragrant essential oils supplied by Oshana.
In one memorable excercise a circle of women locked arms into an circular "egg" and tried to prevent writhing men, forbidden from using their arms, from squirming their way inside.
7- Circle butt slither
Butts arrayed in a circle, one person at a time slithers around the circle on everyone else's butt.
Did I mention this was a lot of fun? Thanks, Ray!
7- Pikl rehydrating
Water never tastes better than it does in the desert.
