Reminiscent of male football tricks where a ball is juggled frontally off the knee or foot, Chunggi, popular among Nepalese girls, appears a lot more difficult. It involves a light bundle of leaves, as green and gathered as the school skirts of the players, that is repeatedly thrown up sideways with the outside or the inside of the foot while hopping on the other leg to a firm, fast beat: the girls look like carefree flappers dancing the Charleston. Part of the fun is counting aloud in English. One girl reaches 50. Then, with regretful backward looks, they vanish through the tall wooden portal into their school.
Francis Alÿs
Director
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Extremis69%
Directed by John Ford70%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
The Class of ‘9271%
Girl Rising70%
Maternal Instinct71%
Looking for Richard68%
Above Majestic73%
180° South72%
Dawg Fight65%
Sherman's March64%
My Mom Jayne80%
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert82%
The Secret65%
Trainwreck: Balloon Boy58%
The Walking Dead: The Return73%
For the Love of Spock73%Don't F*#% With John Wick76%
Fuck64%
