Bata Dancer

In the Yoruba tradition, the Bata drum does not merely accompany the dancer - it commands. Its voice is ancient, its authority sacred, and its mastery demands everything from those who would answer its call.The Bata Dancer opens in myth. Ayangalu, an enigmatic spirit-being, arrives in a human town on coronation day carrying a drum no one has ever seen. He teaches, he plays, and then he vanishes — ...