A youth Riel Dance performance
by https://ibali.uct.ac.za/s/library-history/item/33321
The performance of the Riel Dance by the Net vir Pret group foregrounded a centuries old traditional dance practice of the San and Khoe people. The Riel dance has a history spanning hundreds of years back to when people would dance in celebration after a successful hunt had taken place. The community would rejoice through festivities, song and dance where the sharing of meat would take place. Peter Takelo, leader of the Net vir Pret dance group, emphasises the difference in the dance between the Khoe and San people: the dance was more simplified with the former and would take on more elaborate and complex forms with the latter group. The dance was considered to be only done right when sufficient dust had been shaken from the earth upon which the dancers danced.
