DANC 101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Ballet Royal De La Nuit, Bharatanatyam, Ghost Dance
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Our work thus far has focused on dance as personal, cultural, and artistic expression with particular attention to the power of dance and how social clashes may result when cultural dances are not understood by those outside the culture. Dance is movement, but it is also intention, personal dance is so unique because one movement can have such different intentions with so many different people. In tahiti, men and women danced all the time, to please gods, when work was done. Wovoka who believed in a big earthquake to bring back buffalo. Those that embraced the change with the ghost dance would prosper. Keralans still honor the old gods they believed in, to guard against evils that these gods can bring, keralans propitiate them with a dance ritual of possession, it links individual to community and community to the spirits. Possessed by a supernatural force, fear and exhilaration, rhythmic movements.
