“We are telling a story. The singers tell it verbally and the dancers paint pictures of it.”
YOU HAVEN’T LIVED UNTIL you’ve seen a Scammon Bay grandma dance the Yupik Macarena. And the only place you’re going to see that is in Bethel in April at the Cama’i Fest. Cama’i, I’m told, means hello in Yupik. Some people say it means a warm hello. Myself, after attending the twelfth annual Cama’i Dance…