At the beginning of the ceremony, all of the male cast are in a circle and the rest of the female cast are in a circle around them. Whilst tribal music is playing in the background, as a company, we chant "beer beer beer beer" repetitively whilst using our bodies to move in a exciting and energetic manner. After this, the cast become silent. The male cast in a circle move as water whereas the female cast move as fire. To end this movement, the male cast spit in a bowl that contains the beer we are having the ceremony for. After this, they move backwards still in a circle and the female cast come forwards (also still in a circle). As this is all happening, the tribal music is still playing continuously in the background. However, the music comes to a halt to indicate when the male cast should spit in the bowl.
Now that the female cast is in a circle with the male cast around them, instead of moving as fire, they now move as air whilst the male cast move as earth. The movement shows a clear contrast as moving as air would contain more gracious and elegant movement. On the contrary, moving as the earth would be more aggressive to show the contact that the nation have with the earth is physical. To end this movement, the music comes to a half again to indicate when the female cast should also spit in the bowl of beer. After they do this, they move backwards into the circle with the male cast and continue the movement they did at the beginning whilst chanting "beer beer beer beer".
The cast now crouch down in a circle to watch people perform their own individual rituals for the ceremony. Individual groups will enter the middle of the circle to do their ritual, end of their ritual by putting something inside the bowl of beer then join the rest of the nation in the circle formation. I do my ritual after Rasaq and Brinley with Thaliqua, Kit, Becky and Chloe. Whilst doing our ritual, we repetitively chant "Travel far, meet yourself, travel long, home".
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