I am not sure what they actually saying, but I believe words have lot of meaning if you understand it. “Sacred dances are performed for ceremonial purposes and participatory dances convey stories about life, spirituality and culture.” (Aboriginal Perspectives in the Creative Arts) For Australian Aboriginal people, the dance is important part of their life. By dancing they can teach their youngster, also they can spiritually interact with the
It has a polyrhythmic texture - lots of different rhythms are being played at the same time. Melody: Capercaillie - Skye Waulking Song is taken from a traditional type of chant the women sang while waulking (which is a kind of clothmaking). They would sing songs to pass the time. Originally this folksong would have been an unaccompanied melody and this was changed by Capercaillie when they added music to it. The melodic lines are played in the folk style and the instruments improvise around the melody at the same time.
Vickie Sears’ did a great job on explaining the Native American Elements throughout the story while explaining how Clarissa overcame her label. Clarissa started off as an unstable child, but now through her Native American culture she made a huge turn around and became a great dancer just like Molly Graybull. Clarissa learned dancing through experience, listening, observing and doing. Oral traditions were very important to Clarissa so she attended the women’s traditional. Last but not least Clarissa maintained her traditions, native language and culture by practicing dance and expressing that she was
Margret Mead taught generations of American about the value how to look carefully and openly into the complexities of humankind throught exploring the life of the Pacific people. Like the Bali people, they play dramas to spread out religious ideas, myths, and historic lore. Their theater of human actor is derived from the puppet theater, wayang. And there are two form of it. The actor for wayang topeng (topeng means mask), they wear the mask by gripping a leather tab with their teeth, while they speak the text; and later the mask was held by strap, and the actor can speak and dance at the same time while they perform.
They did this by selecting a few special students. These special students are known as Haumanas. The Kumus would invest all their time and energy into teaching these special few the Hula. To learn the Hula it takes great discipline, spiritual poise, and concentration. Before the dance lessons are ever started the Haumanas must prove to be in control of their mind, body, and sole.
In Lucius Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, Apuleius describes different religious rituals that go on in different countries. Apuleius also talks about the characteristics of mystery cults. He talks about, initiation rituals, life after death, secret rituals and rights that the cult has. The excerpt focuses mainly on the rebirth and salvation and eternal life. This is a big belief and it connects the Greeks emotionally with their god/goddess.
In our class workshop of this scene, we developed our understanding of the scene while singing the song by following the stage directions set in the script. As we sung the words “Because we love to work like slaves, we all adore to work like slaves, it puts a rose in every cheek” we used the directions and pretended to be slapped after the word cheek, which changed the context of the words. This was a powerful technique as the song engages the audience with its childishness and then shocks them into understanding the literal meaning behind the words they sing with the direct violence shown
Sweetgrass represents tradition,culture and religion because it is used in many religious ceremonies and the ceremonies often have a certain way of doing it. As eating , aboriginals kept the skull so the tradition part is keeping the skull and doing a ceremony with it . Sweetgrass also considered holy grass or sacred grass Second tier art part For the totem poll i drew burning sweet grass with golden yellow as the plant because it is ''blond'' in real life. I also drew black curvy lines to represent burning sweetgrass because that’s what aboriginals did they burned sweetgrass to show their respect for culture.In the background I filled it in with the color ‘’peach’’ for the inside of totem polls. Third tier science part The third tier is hunting, is important to aboriginals because that was their main food source.
This essay will be discussing Ditty’s ambitions and ideas about ballet and her parent’s point of view about how she should conduct her life. The essay will also be about the reasons that Ditty lied to her parents by continuing her attentiveness in ballet. Being in a Heradi Jewish family, Ditty’s life revolves all around her religion. There are certain rules that she must follow, things that she must do and things that she must not. Haredi Jewish girls must follow all of these rules until they reach 12 years old that is when they have a bat-mitzvah which is a ceremony for welcoming them into the Jewish world of adulthood.
However, to make music Indians constructed instruments out of gourdes to make rattles, along with materials like turtle shells, deer hooves and skin covered drums that they would beat on with their hands or another object to make music. Masks and face paint were also popular in ceremonies, along with brightly colored dress and large feathers which symbolized prayers to the creator along with the connection to animal and people. Along with the elaborate music and dance, Indians were also very crafted and were often seen making pottery, elaborate tiles, toy dolls, totem poles, blankets, as well as basket weaving in their down time. Native American Indians were very skill-full and expressive in their crafts, often one will see many drawings telling stories, or to record a specific time in history. “Hopi” or otherwise known as a symbolic tile painted with stories and legends about the Native American Indians, as well as animals and plants.