Children Dancing Adowa

Photograph by Manu Herbstein

2001

"She danced adowa, slightly bent at the waist, the cloth stretched taut to keep her hands a palm's width apart, one hand above and then below the other, the movements of her feet controlled, deliberate, turning her head this way and that, looking first upwards and then down at her feet, stooping, bending at the knee, circling, staightening up, lost in the flowing beat." (Ama)