Ceremonial dance

The Hopi Snake Dance is performed by Hopis which is a First Nation tribe which lives in the northeast part of Arizona. The Hopi Snake Dance is used on the last day of a 16 day celebration which happens in August or early September. Many people call this dance the “Rain Dance” because it is a dance to pray for the rain. The origin of the Hopi Snake Dance also comes from this story. A long time back, there lived a father and a son in one of the Hopi villages. Whenever there were offerings were…

of dances performed by number of players’ Color Guard. The marching band originated with traveling musicians who performed together at festivals and celebrations throughout the ancient world. It evolved and became more structured within the armies of the early city-states, becoming the basis for the military band, from which the modern marching band emerged. As musicians became less important in directing the movement of troops on the battlefield, the bands moved into increasingly ceremonial…

Dance, Theatre and Religion: A Balinese Case Study Southeast Asia is a highly diverse region, home to myriad ethnicities, religions, practices, beliefs, values, languages, cultures and traditions. The variety of performance art, dance and theatre found in Southeast Asia “is almost staggering” (Brandon, 1967, p. 1). Some examples of performance art, dance and theatre found in Southeast Asia include “shadow plays in Java, dramatic folk rituals in Bali, masked pantomime in Thailand, spirit…

Dance -- a series of movements that match the speed and rhythm of a piece of music -- is a physical medium to express feelings that can’t be put in words: you discover your artistic gift, ignite your creative passion, and create new possibilities. Despite the fact that the fine arts has a known track record for frequent rejection of young talent and pressure to give up their career in the arts, there are numerous reasons as to why dancers decide to continue to follow this path. The majority of…

me. The dancers exit the stage before me, which takes what seems like an eternity, and the MC announces; “ up next we have Kendra and Frank performing number 639 Love Hate Thing.” The crowd claps as the young dancers and family members of Caledonia Dance Company scream and cheer as we enter the beam of blinding lights directed straight at our faces. I stand patiently waiting for my music to start, holding the fake cell phone I use as a prop, worried that everyone can see the nervous sweat…

consisted of adults (Steadman, 2008, p. 52). What can be normally seen in warfare is quite a large amount of adult male deaths, but the almost equal ratios of male versus female, and old versus young, suggests that these deaths were interpersonal and ceremonial in…

Dance Is A Sport- “Dancers are the athletes of God,” is what Albert Einstein said. He is absolutely right. Dance is a sport. That is what this article is going to prove to you during this essay. It will state reasons including that dance is a physical activity and requires skill, it is competitive, and dancers have to do everything that other athletes do. First off, let’s look at the definition of “sport”. A sport is “an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess” according to…

Festivals Festival can be defined as any occasion for celebration, especially one which commemorates an anniversary or other significant event, and normally the festival celebrated give people so much to remember until it becomes a memory. Different countries have different festivals, history, culture, values, beliefs, languages and religions. Therefore, this rules apply to the Kadazans too. There are several festivals celebrated by the Kadazans, and is still practiced until now. The Harvest…

fourth largest island on the nation of Indonesia. Due to the dynamic split of the eighteenth century, the royal courts of Yogyakarta and Surakarta were established and each of the courts had created its own versions of the classical Javanese court dance bedoyo. The empire of the Asante stretched from central Ghana to present day Togo and the ivory coast of Africa region. The Asante’s region is said to be filled with highly disciplined and militaristic people. On many of the occasions, dancing…

Production, The Business of Fancy Dancing, by Sherman Alexie tells the story of Seymour Polatkin, a young writer struggling with his identity in a world what it means to be a Native American man is highly contested. We first encounter one of Seymour’s dances in the film’s credit sequence…