Dance as a form of Theater

With Africa, theater doesn't involve acting but rather all the performing arts as well.  Music and dance are incorporated into their ways of storytelling.  What may look like a traditional dance, it is also telling a story.  For instance in the clip below, it may seem like dance but it is really telling a war story.  Over the decades the original story has most likely changed.  Before the days of writing, back then people had to rely on oral story telling, where often times the story has changed over time.  It's as if you played a game of telephone, where one person starts off saying one thing and as each person passes along the message, the end person has a completely different story.

http://youtu.be/o1_cMTjoNtM