The Great Dance: A Hunter’s Story
2000 (75 min.)
Directed and Photographed: Craig Foster &
Damon Foster
Producer: Ellen Windemuth
“I, !Nqate, live in the Kalahari. I
know all the waterholes and pans around here, the places where the animals
come. When you track an animal, you must become the animal. You feel a tingling
in your armpits when the animal is close. These are the things we know. When tracking is like dancing . . . this is the Great Dance.”
Epitomizing
the San hunters’ relationship between themselves, the animals, and the
landscape, is the “chasing hunt”—a run to the death.
This
incredible feat of skill, tenacity and endurance is rarely practiced and has
never before been filmed.
We
join Karoha as he alone runs down his prey, tracking
at high speed over difficult terrain and in 46° C (120° F) heat, until man or
animal must collapse from sheer exhaustion.
Taken from the box cover
for the movie.
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