2. Our little queens have given wonderful
performances, and has tried their best to
show their young talents on these
brilliant dance forms :
AFRICAN
HAWAIIAN
ARABIC
4. African dance• Traditional dance in Africa occurs collectively, expressing the life of the
community more than that of individuals or couples. Early commentators
consistently commented on the absence of close couple dancing: such
dancing was thought immoral in many traditional African societies. In all
sub Saharan African dance there seems to be no evidence for sustained,
one-to-one male-female partnering anywhere before the late colonial era
when it was apparently considered in distinctly poor taste. For
the Yoruba, to give a specific example, touching while dancing is not
common except in special circumstances. The only partner dance associated
with African dances would be the Bottle Dance of the Mankon People in
the Northwest Region of Cameroon or the Assiko from the Douala people
that involves interaction of Man and Woman and the way that they
charm each other.
5. Emphasizing individual talent, Yoruba
dancers and drummers, for example,
express communal desires, values, and
collective creativity. Dances are often
segregated by gender, reinforcing gender
roles in children and other community
structures such as kinship, age and
status are also often reinforced. Many
dances are performed by only males or
females, indicating strong beliefs about
what being male or female means and
some strict taboos about interaction.
Dances celebrate the passage from
childhood to adulthood or spiritual
worship
7. • Hula is a dance form accompanied by chant or song .It was developed in
the Hawaiian Islands by the Polynesians who originally settled there. The hula
dramatizes or portrays the words of the oli or mele in a visual dance form.
• There are many sub-styles of hula, with the main two categories being Hula 'Auana
and Hula Kahiko. Ancient hula, as performed before Western encounters with
Hawaiʻi, is called kahiko. It is accompanied by chant and traditional instruments.
Hula, as it evolved under Western influence in the 19th and 20th centuries, is
called ʻauana (a word that means "to wander" or "drift"). It is accompanied by song
and Western-influenced musical instruments such as the guitar, and the double bass.
Hawaiian dance
8. Terminology for two main additional categories is
beginning to enter the hula lexicon: "Monarchy"
includes any hula which were composed and
choreographed during the 19th century. During that
time the influx of Western culture created significant
changes in the formal Hawaiian arts, including hula. "Ai
Kahiko", meaning "in the ancient style" are those hula
written in the 20th and 21st centuries that follow the
stylistic protocols of the ancient hula kahiko.
There are also two main positions of a hula dance -
either sitting (noho dance) or standing (luna dance).
Some dances utilize both forms.
10. Arabic Dance
Arabic dance is a Western-coined name for a type of Middle Eastern
dance. Originally a "solo, improvised dance involving torso
articulation", belly dance takes many different forms depending on the
country and region, both in costume and dance style, and new styles have
evolved in the West as its popularity has spread globally.
Arabic dance is primarily a torso-driven dance, with an emphasis on
articulations of the hips. Unlike many Western dance forms, the focus of
the dance is on relaxed, natural isolations of the torso muscles, rather
than on movements of the limbs through space. Although some of these
isolations appear superficially similar to the isolations used in jazz ballet,
they are sometimes driven differently and have a different feeling or
emphasis.
11. • Arabic dancing is believed to have had a long history in the Middle
East, but reliable evidence about its origins is scarce, and
accounts of its history are often highly speculative. Several
Greek and Roman sources including Juvenal and Martial describe
dancers from Asia Minor and Spain using undulating movements,
playing castanets, and sinking to the floor with 'quivering thighs',
descriptions that are certainly suggestive of the movements that
we today associate with belly dance. Later, particularly in the
18th and 19th centuries, European travellers in the Middle East
such as Edward Lane and Flaubert wrote extensively of the
dancers they saw there, including the Awalim andGhawazee of
Egypt. In the Ottoman Empire belly dancers used to perform for
the harem in the Topkapı Palace.
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12. The Traditional Dances shows the history in itself.
We the students of Queens Valley School was
given a task to perform on it.
It wasn’t easy for us to make the children
understand the feelings and make them perform the
dance
The students and the teachers made the days and
nights one to reach perfection.
Day by day it was becoming hard for the children
to understand every move, movement and even the song.
At last their efforts were not gone waste, the
students did their best to make them and their teachers
feel proud.
