The annual San cultural dance activity, The Kuru Dance Festival, returns to its traditional home, Dqae Qare Game Farm, 35 km north of Gantsi,   with about 600 tourists and dancers attending.

 

Debtswana has traditionally been one of the main sponsors of the  San cutural dance activity.The event introduces tourists to San dance styles such as the Yeuei, Dxana, and Ndingo. The Dxana are popular for their healing antics on stage called "Q'oesadcaa". Other styles, which have left tourists spellbound include the dove dance by the Naro tribe of D'kar, the Giraffe, and Gemsbok dances by the Gantsi dancers, while the Hambukushu also perform their healing songs, Diware in amazing fashion.

 

There are Kuru Dance Festival, had groups from different communities. They included the Dxana and Dcui from New Xade, the Wayei from Ekoga, the Dxana and Dcui from Metsianong, the Naro from D'kar, the Ncubi Family From Corridor Na, the Qgoo from Bere, the Khwe from Plaatfontein (South Africa), the Tsumkwe from Namibia, the Dxana and Dcui from CKGR, the Dobe from Ngamiland, the Naro from Tchabo, the Xhanikwe from Shakawe, the Naro from Xhanagas, the Herero from D'kar, the !Xun from Plaatfontein (South Africa), the Qgoo from Ghanzi and the Ju 'hoansi from Tsodilo.

 

One distinctive mark of this san festival is the participation by the elderly people wearing animal skins as they do their spiritual dance and songs. Revellers are also treated to the sound of the Basarwa people as they play their musical legacy.