Vanuatu Womenʼs Water Music

From the remote, northern tropical islands of Vanuatu, comes an extremely unique and rarely seen tradition, called water music. Dressed in traditional costumes of flowers and leaves, a small number of women wade into the water up to their waist, stand in the shape of a half moon and begin to play. The water is beaten in rhythmic dance of bodies and waves. The water itself is the instrument producing a wide range of sounds in intoxicating rhythms, with pieces titled "The Sound of Thunder", "Big Whale Fish Playing With Small Whale Fish", "Waves Breaking on the Reef". (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival)