Dances
- Mure — the dance of celebration and mourning. It is often danced during celebration (of events such: a victory in war, the birth of a king, etc.) and mourning (the death of king, lost of land during war, etc.). Mure is often danced to the tune of the sounds of wooden trumpets (ture, odiri), animal horns (pbere), mbiri (dancing bells), and drums (leri). At mure dance, men sporadically utter bellows (cira soka). Every cira is unique and carries coded message. A cira is normally used as sign of identification and authority. Women (often the wives of the men who utter cira) would answer with their own bellow (mbilili) as sign of recognition and reverence. During mure, war songs (jeyi) are often sung - specially when the Madi people at war. Jeyi could even be sung during the time of battles, accompanied by the sounds of cira, ture and pkere, by Madi warriors to encourage themselves and to threaten the enemies to surrender or escape.
- Gayi — a youth flirtation dance similar to flamingo.
- Kore — a graceful dance
- Kejua — mostly danced by women
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