After dinner some professional dancers come to entertain the family. The dancers could do cartwheels, handsprings, turns, and backbends easily while the singers clapped their hands in time to the music. Sometimes the wore no clothes or only short kilts so that they could move more easily. Like modern dancers, they had to exercise every day to keep in shape and be strong enough to leap high into the air.

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