Folk Dance (by mottlee)

[Bela_theDo]

I am leaving this thread for you to host Folk Dance. Take it away  :)

[mottlee]

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Thanks!

[Bela_theDo]

*bows to mottlee*

 

Thanks for the all info :)

[Bellanoire]

hmm Motts I know of a sword dance thats done by women its a harvest dance or fetility dance of some kind. sometimes done by one woman but can be done by more*the one performed by one woman is very sexy fyi*

 

i can't rememeber where i learned it from did you by any chance come across info on that?

[Bela_theDo]

Harvest dance...now thats interesting...

[mottlee]

yeah i did i will have anpther look and post some info for you sis  ;D

[Panchi]

I have heard about harvest dances. They are folk dances done on harvest.

 

Here is a picture of Bihu dance done on Bihu festival in Assam in India.

             

 

sorry but i can't help myself in this field.

[mottlee]

lol it's all good pank anything you want to add is fine ;D

[Bela_theDo]

Haha-nice Pank  ;D

[Bellanoire]

I absolutely love those outfits they wear.

 

would love one in cobalt blue! and light blue!

[mottlee]

Female sword dancing, or Raks al sayf, was not widespread in the Middle East. Men in Egypt performed a dance called el ard, a martial arts dance involving upraised swords, but women were not widely known to use swords as props during their dancing in public. However, paintings and engravings of the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme (who visited Egypt in the 18th century) show sword dancers balancing sabers on their head. Sword dancing, (Raqs al Saïf) is widespread in Turkey, Pakistan-India and Iran.

 

Women’s sword dancing evolved out of sword fighting between men in Egypt and Turkey. There was even a time when sword dancing was banned by the Sultan during Ottoman rule, as it was believed that dancers who took a sword from a soldier and pretended to “kill” him at the end of the performance collected the swords to begin a resistance against the army. These swords were never returned.

 

[mottlee]

 

a Bedouin woman performing a sword dance, c. 1910

[Bellanoire]

nods see i knew it, I was also thinking of one performed by various pagan ideologies in northern europe, it usually was tied in with the end of winter or at harvest time or something. I came across it during my wicca studies.

[Kathleen]

Last Day of the Event. It came so quickly, I hope you all enjoyed it! Feel free to throw in your last minute comments to any conversations!

[Kivam]

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