Awa Kouyate, a woman who closes the piece in a healing water ritual, moves with elegance, and Joel Luecht, the American, appears occasionally wrapped like a mummy in white cloth.
Whenever there is some water in the canals and farmers need it, they are allowed to take it in accordance with subak rules for diverting water; the 'welcoming the water' ritual has no meaning here.
(Jack Anderson Mark Lamb Dancee (Saturday) "Water Rites," created by Mark Lamb and the jazz composer and vocalist Katie Bull, explores themes of water rituals, water pollution and water as a healing agent in an evening that combines improvised and set choreography with breaks for food and wine.
And observing the Jewish calendar generates many festive meals, like a weekly Shabbat lunch for 13 people or the formal first Seder, where Mrs. Fishbein provides each guest with a bento box and sake flask of warm water for ritual handwashing.
The multidisciplinary theatre veteran Ping Chong re-creates his 1991 dance "I Will Not Be Sad in This World," and Muna Tseng brings back her 1988 liquid-pouring ritual, "Water, Water".
The advance of modern pills, creams and x-rays could have all but ended the water drinking rituals.
An opposite social facet to these hellish rebirths is the precise way in which a person can redeem oneself from a particular crime through a series of vows (such as fasting, water purification rituals, chanting, and even sacrifices).
This clearly poses a considerable barrier to safe child faeces disposal in the latrine as well as latrine cleaning if elaborate water purification rituals are perceived to be too time-consuming or difficult to perform, added to arguments for providing water availability in the latrine.
That way, you get a fascinating, memorable insight into another culture - without upsetting the local people or indeed having to endure any eye-watering local rituals.
"Sí," the one with the fish will say, and beer tops will pop, lines will plop back into the water, and the ritual will repeat itself.
Listening to my mother explain the origins of the holy Zam Zam water and the ritual of throwing stones at the devil was to be reminded that for Muslims of her generation Islam consists mostly of stories told through the ages.
