Binafawonai

The people of the Dsuðedzatu Chefuchu are a hard-working peoples, spending hours toiling away in mills, ship yards, at sea and many other professions so that they may do their part for the Republic. However, on rare occasions the whole island will seemingly come to a halt, with shops left un-opened and houses empty as the people move to celebrate the gifts life has granted them. These festivals are celebrated with music, dancing and plenty of food and drink to keep spirits high and a centre piece of festivities is the Binafawonai [Celebration Dancing].
The Binafawonai is a large, vertical column, including trees, stone supports or special wooden poles erected in fields with multicolours ribbons that reach down to the ground and them a bit more. People will hold onto these ribbons and, in time and to music, dance around the pole, plaiting the ribbons around the pole in a beautiful pattern. A full dance involves completed the pattern then doing the dance in reverse so that the fabric free hangs in turn for the next group of dancers. Parents will practice with their children, husbands and their wives and young lovers looking to have fun all have special dance routines they practice, resulting in different patterns, each unique to one another.
The dancers wear clothes that are completely red, with men and women both wearing trousers and a shirt with an over coat, normally their everyday one, to fill out the dress. Women often do their hair in plaits, to resemble a completed Binafawonai, with colourful fabrics twisted in and out of them. This is one of the rare times a dofvai will not be seen in their usual whites and has been observed by outsiders only a few times due to the closed off culture the dofvai have.
Category:Dofvai