Intore: the ‘richest’ dance in Africa
If the Kinyarwanda culture is legendary the world over for anything, it is for the Intore dance, the one in which striking female dancers fully clad in traditional shawls, almost akin to the Indian sari, bare-chested men strapped across the chest and back, wearing ‘manes’ made from a special tree, doing flying bird-like movements, blissfully, and perhaps appropriately referred to as the traditional ballet. One never gets completely over the delicate leg balancing act of the same kind to wing-flapping bird movements, or even fin-rolling acts of fish, if imagination is allowed to run a little wild.