The Power of YouTube.
Within weeks of this video going online on YouTube this group of young Aboriginal dancers had attracted international attention. The video is now up to half a million hits. It's also featured on some Greek websites.
These Yolngu men come from two communities in Arnhem Land in in Northern Australia and they call themselves the Chooky Dancers.
For more information about the Yolngu, the oldest living culture on earth, watch the film Yolngu Boy. ECU Library has the video of this 2000 film.
Read Murray McLaughlin's full report on Zorba the Greek Yolngu Style on the ABC 7.30 Report website.
The dancing is truly joyous, so I share this as my Christmas offering.
Thursday 20 December 2007
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