Emerging Peoples

This is a mythical-musical exploration of the Marubo, one of the several native peoples on the adventitious border between Brazil and Peru, southwestern Amazonia. Over ten years of fieldwork give rise to a portrait of these peoples as they express themselves in, and are themselves the expression of their saiti festivals and myth-chants. In their native language, saiti designates a generic festival where myths occur in a specific musical and choreographic form - the form that establishes the origins of these peoples, those of their world and of all things therein.