Kirumbidhi (Stek Dance) is the most pop­u­lar tra­di­tional sec­u­lar dance , in which two men move within a large cir­cle of on­look­ers , threat­en­ing each other usin styl­ized mo­tions with two large steks. Is a highly com­pet­i­tive stik dance which usu­ally oc­curs dur­ing wed­ding cel­e­bra­tions . Two men step around the perime­ter of a large clear­ing cir­cle ap­prox­i­mately sixty feet ac­cros car­ry­ing stiks in their right hands . The stiks called “npweke” are over five feet long.

At first the men walks in a styl­ized fash­ion pay­ing lit­tle at­ten­sion to one an­other , but soon they turn and ap­proach the cen­tre of the cir­cle. Oc­ca­sion­ally one or the other strikes the ground with the stik . Fi­nally one strikes the oth­er’s stik a hard blow an then quicly holds the stik and his other arm in­front of his own head as to parry a coun­ter­at­tack .

Each man does this un­til some­one else en­ters the cir­cle or un­til one of com­bat­tents runs to the edge and passes his stik to some­one else . The in­stru­ments used in the Kirumbidhi Dance are : cha­puo , ngoma , dhu­mari and utasa .