The Kenbi Dancers, who have travelled from the Top End for the event, gave a quick performance to a group of fascinated onlookers at Harris Street Reserve yesterday that involved them hunting a buffalo and even searching between audience members' legs looking for mud crabs.

The in-demand dance troupe lives in a small community of about 175 people at Belyuen, 18 kilometres across the harbour from Darwin.

According to their manager Steve Brown, the dancers love travelling Australia and sharing their culture.

"Our big thing is involving the audience and bringing them into dance with us, so everyone is in together, as one," Mr Brown said.

The Kenbi Dancers are Larrakia people and Mr Brown said their culture was very much alive .

" Their language is very strong," he said. "In their community they have about 10 different languages . . . even among these nine dancers, they might be all from the same family, but they still have two or three different languages.

"It's good they can come down (here) to a place where the culture has been broken down over the years and bring their culture, which is really strong, and maybe help build it up here again."

The Kenbi Dancers, and many other acts, will perform at the Tarerer Festival today and tomorrow at the Killarney Recreation Reserve.

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