Mali
18m
Aug 28, 2026
The Dance That Speaks to the Dead: Inside the Dogon Mask Ceremony of Mali
On the cliffs of Bandiagara, a dancer wearing a mask that stands four meters tall moves between the world of the living and the world of the dead. The Dogon mask dance is not performance. It is a technology of transition — one of the most sophisticated funerary systems ever devised by a human community, and one that the modern world has barely begun to understand.