This is Gaia and her cousin dancing to Clarence Clearwater, a navajo singer who plays the traditional songs in a non-traditional way. It's pretty good stuff. I shot this video at Indian Summerfest on Friday night.
One of the songs Clarence played was a song called "Skip Dance," which he described as a "ladies choice" dance wherein a girl would ask a boy to dance, and if the boy did, he is obligated to give the girl a quarter. Thats a prett sweet deal for the girls.
I explained to Gaia what "Ladies choice" meant and invited her to go up and dance. She grabbed a girl-- a stranger from the audience-- and they both went up to the front of the stage then and danced their little hearts out. Clearwater seemed to think it was pretty neat, too, because he vamped a little bit in the middle of the song and pointed the girls out to the croud. Check out Clearwater's stuff. He's got samples on his Web site.
Gaia then danced with her cousin Aurora as well as with her daddy. It was a great capper to a great summer.