Sunday, March 17, 2019

dance

tango
- people

  • Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald Gardès; 11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a French Argentine singer, songwriter, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango. Gardel's baritone voice and the dramatic phrasing of his lyrics made miniature masterpieces of his hundreds of three-minute tango recordings. Together with lyricist and long-time collaborator Alfredo Le Pera, Gardel wrote several classic tangos.


Al Ayyala dance also generally known as yowalah is a traditional group dance of United Arab Emirates, The dance is accompanied with traditional music, and a separate group of male and female are represented. Yowalah is distinctive in both its music and dancing. Leather bagpipes, flute and drums are the traditional musical instrument played during the dance.Al-Ayyala is a popular and expressive cultural performance practised in north-western Oman and throughout the United Arab Emirates. Al-Ayyala involves chanted poetry, drum music and dance, and simulates a battle scene. Two rows of about twenty men face each other, carrying thin bamboo sticks to signify spears or swords. Between the rows musicians play large and small drums, tambourines and brass cymbals. The rows of men move their heads and sticks synchronously with the drum rhythm and chant poetic lyrics, while other performers move around the rows holding swords or guns, which they occasionally hurl to the sky and catch. In the United Arab Emirates, girls wearing traditional dresses stand at the front, tossing their long hair from side to side. The melody has seven tones in an irregular repeated pattern, and the chanted poetry varies according to the occasion. Al-Ayyala is performed during weddings and other festive occasions in both the Sultanate of Oman and the United Arab Emirates. 

dance around maypole
- https://www.rbth.com/history/332118-germans-brought-may-tree-celebration-maibaum-russia The evil spirits can mess with your money – to put it very simply, that’s one of the beliefs that made Germans celebrate the first day of May – traditionally, the celebration came from tribal, maybe even ancient times. It was the first month of their financial year, and, as historian Tatyana Biryukova writes, Germans celebrated the ‘May Tree’ holiday (also known as Maypole) to ward off evil spirits and to summon luck.Russians had their own kind of May Tree celebration – a pagan rite that was celebrated on Trinity Day in early June. The birch tree was the central symbol of this day – wreaths were made from its leaves, birch trees were decorated and people danced in circles around them. A rite of passage of spring, marking the beginning of the next agricultural season, it was also a traditional holiday for young women, with girls making friendship vows with each other by walking under an arch made of young birch. And it was quite different from how this holiday was celebrated in Europe.In different forms, the May holiday existed in all European societies, and the tree, too, was its main symbol. The May Tree (in Central and Eastern Europe it was also the birch tree) symbolized the axis of the world and also alluded to phallic symbolism (a notion supported by Sigmund Freud) and fertility. The May celebration in its European form came to Russia relatively late and was actually foreign – Germans brought it. In the 15th-16th centuries, German military men, scientists, miners etc. started massively arriving at the Muscovy Tsardom to gain employment. There were so many of them that in the 16th century, under Ivan the Terrible, a special German Quarter was organized in Moscow.For decades, Germans, Brits, Danes, and the Dutch in Moscow were eyed warily, but at the end of the 17th century, the new young tsar Peter somehow took a special liking to the Germans. It happened because his mother was raised in a European way, and his father, Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich, had many interests in European sciences and technology of the era. Peter frequented the German Quarter, where he had friends like Patrick Gordon, the first foreigner in Russian history to whom the Russian tsar would pay a private visit to (in 1690). Gordon, a man 37 years his senior, became Peter’s principal military advisor and a coach for soldiers and guards. Since then, Germans slowly started gaining new status within the Russian society – after all, whomever the Tsar liked, everybody had to like, as well.


ballet
- Arabesque (French: [aʁabɛsk]; literally, "in Arabic fashion") in dance, particularly ballet, is a body position in which a dancer stands on one leg – the supporting leg – with the other leg – the working leg – turned out and extended behind the body, with both legs held straight. In classical ballet, an arabesque can be executed with the supporting leg en pointe or demi pointe or with foot flat on the floor. The working leg may touch the floor in tendu back – an arabesque par terre – or be elevated. Common elevation angles of the raised leg are 45° – à demi hauteur – and 90° – à la hauteur. When the angle is much greater than 90° and the body trunk leans forward to counterbalance the working leg, the position is called arabesque penchée. The arms may be held in various positions. Arabesques are described from the perspective of the dancer, in terms of the stage reference points used by the training system.
- russia

  • 【今日俄罗斯 12/2017】During the reign of peter the great, a decree was announced to include ballet in formal court ceremonies and all elite youth should learn to dance.  The first ballet school was established in st petersburg in 1738, and teachers from france and italy were invited to give lessons on french and venetian dances. The first ballet troupe was established in 1742 in st petersburg



A square dance is a dance for four couples (eight dancers in total) arranged in a square, with one couple on each side, facing the middle of the square. Square dances were first documented in 16th-century England but were also quite common in France and throughout Europe. They came to North America with the European settlers and have undergone considerable development there. In some countries and regions, through preservation and repetition, square dances have attained the status of a folk dance. The Western American square dance may be the most widely known form worldwide, possibly due to its association in the 20th century with the romanticized image of the American cowboy. Square dancing is, therefore, strongly associated with the United States. Nineteen U.S. states have designated it as their official state dance.


foot related
- “泾源回族踏脚脚”是流传在泾源回族群众中的一种民间原始舞蹈艺术形式，东汉时期由阿拉伯商人带到中国，后经唐丝绸之路流传至陕西回族之间，并逐渐发展成集娱乐、舞蹈、竞技和健身于一体的艺术形式。


poland
- https://polishmusic.usc.edu/research/dances/

The mazurka (in Polish mazurek, plural mazurki) is a Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo, and with "strong accents unsystematically placed on the second or third beat".The folk origins of the mazurek are two other Polish musical forms which are the slow kujawiak, and the fast oberek. The mazurek is always found to have either a triplet, trill, dotted eighth note (quaver) pair, or an ordinary eighth note pair before two quarter notes (crotchets). In the 19th century, the dance became popular in many ballrooms in different parts of Europe. The Polish national anthem has a mazurek rhythm but is too slow to be considered a mazurek. In Polish, this musical form is called mazurek—a word derived from mazur, which—until the nineteenth century—denoted an inhabitant of Poland's Mazovia region, and which also became the root for Masuria. In Polish, mazurka is actually the genitive and accusative cases of mazurek.The dance was common as a popular dance in Europe and the United States in the mid- to late nineteenth century.
- china daily 21may19

The Kujawiak is a Polish folk dance from the region of Kujawy in central Poland.[1] It is one of the five national dances of Poland, the others being the krakowiak, mazurka, oberek, and polonaise. The music is in triple meter,[1] and is characterized by its rubato tempo and calm, lyrical nature. The dance typically involves couples walking gracefully in a quarter-note rhythm, on slightly bended knees, with relaxed turns, around a circle.The name "kujawiak", as a reference to the dance, first appeared in 1827, in T.F. Jaskólski's composition Pasterze na Bachorzy. Sielanki Kujawskie.[2] It is argued that the dance was developed from the mazur between 1750 and 1830.


The oberek, also called obertas or ober, is a lively Polish dance. The name "Oberek" is derived from "obracać się" which in Polish means "to spin". It consists of many dance lifts and jumps.[1] It is performed at a much quicker pace than the Polish waltz and is one of the national dances of Poland. This is the second-most popular dance in Polish-American music, after the polka. The "Polish-American Oberek" is a social dance, originally brought to America by Polish immigrants in late 1800s and early 1900s. This social dance derives from the folk dance oberek; however, the steps are slightly altered and the music is slightly different. Obereks are played by Polka bands throughout the United States.



Choreia (Ancient Greek: χορεία) is a circle dance accompanied by singing (see Greek chorus, choros), in ancient Greece. Homer refers to this dance in his epic poem, the Iliad.
Cognates of choreia are used for circle dances in a number of other countries:


Als Reigen (auch: Reien, Reihen, Reihentanz, aus altfranzösisch raie, „Tanz“) werden verschiedene Tänze bezeichnet, die von mehreren sich einheitlich bewegenden Tänzern gemeinsam geschritten oder gesprungen werden. Die Tänzer stehen dabei in Ketten oder Kreisen (Kreisreigen, Ringelreihen), in zwei sich gegenüberstehenden Reihen (Frontreigen) oder paarweise hintereinander. Auch die dabei angestimmten Lieder und Gesänge selbst wurden Reihen oder Reien genannt.Die antike Form des Reigens war die griechische Chorea (griechisch ἡ χορεία hē choreía „das Tanzen, der Chortanz, Reigentanz“), ein vorzugsweise kultischer Tanz mehrerer Personen zu Gesang.
- *****note that Chorea (or choreia, occasionally) is an abnormal involuntary movement disorder, one of a group of neurological disorders called dyskinesias. The term chorea is derived from this dance.


El chotis es una música y baile con origen en Bohemia. Su nombre deriva del término alemán Schottisch («escocés»), una danza social centroeuropea a la que en Viena se quiso atribuir origen en un baile escocés. Diversas variantes del schottisch perviven en la tradición argentina (schotis), austríaca, brasileña (xote), escandinava (schottis), española, finlandesa (sottiisi), francesa (scottish), italiana (chotis), inglesa (scottische), mexicana (chotís), paraguaya (choti), portuguesa (choutiça o chotiça), suiza y uruguaya (chotís o xote). Se puso de moda en casi toda Europa durante el siglo xix y se extendió a América. The schottische is a partnered country dance that apparently originated in Bohemia.[citation needed] It was popular in Victorian era ballrooms as a part of the Bohemian folk-dance craze and left its traces in folk music of countries such as Argentina ("chotis"Spanish Wikipedia and "chamamé"), Finland ("jenkka"), France, Italy, Norway ("reinlender (no)"), Portugal and Brazil (xote, chotiça (pt)), Spain (chotis), Sweden, Denmark ("schottis"), Mexico (Norteño music), and the United States, among other nations. The schottische is considered by The Oxford Companion to Music to be a kind of slower polka, with continental-European origin.


- during the la verbena de paloma festival in madrid on 15aug, people celebrate with this dance



Hopak (Ukrainian: гопа́к, IPA: [ɦoˈpɑk]) is a Ukrainian folk dance originating as a male dance among the Zaporozhian Cossacks but later danced by couples, male soloists, and mixed groups of dancers. It is performed most often as a solitary concert dance by amateur and professional Ukrainian dance ensembles, as well as other performers of folk dances.[1] It has also been incorporated into larger artistic opuses such as operas, ballets and theatre.The hopak is often popularly referred to as the "National Dance of Ukraine" and has become very popular among Slavic countries, in particular Russia, Belarus and Poland. There are similar folkloric dance tunes known as Sirmpa in Leros, Greece.
- The name hopak is derived from the verb hopaty (Ukrainian: гопати) which means "to jump," as well as the corresponding exclamation hop! (Ukrainian: гоп) which can be uttered during a jump as an expression of surprise or amazement. It is also referred to as gopak from the Russian form.


The squat dance (Russian: присядка, prisyadka) is an important characteristic of eastern Slavic folk dance. East Slavic culture arose from Slavic, Uralic, Germanic (Vikings) and Turkic peoples and was influenced by eastern and western cultures from Asia and Europe, mainly from Scandinavia and Baltic regions, as well as from nomadic Eurasian steppe cultures.[1] The squat dance originated in regions where Eastern Slavic people lived (and later where Russian, Belarus and Ukrainian states appeared in Europe, formerly Kievan Rus').[2] Beside East Slavic-speaking countries squat dancing is also used to some degree in Indian dances.The squat dance is an integral feature of Russian folk culture. With kicks in the air, turns, and stomping movements, it is one of the main elements in Russian fast dances. The squat dance appears in Russian dances such as Barynya, Leto, Kalinka, Yablochko, Trepak, Kozachokand others. The squat dance is performed only by males.


Halay is a regional category of folk dance styles in central and southeastern Anatolia. The music accompanying the dance is the zurna and davul. It begins slow and speeds up. Halay is a traditional dance in Turkey it mostly played during wedding on the zurna, supported by a davul, but in the recent years, electronic instruments have started to replace them. Typically, Halay dancers form a circle or a line, while holding each other with the little finger or shoulder to shoulder or even hand to hand with the last and first player holding a piece of cloth. It is a national dance from Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Azerbaijan, and ]. In Azerbaijani, yal means "row, line of chain"; the dancers stand in one line or two rows and sometimes in several rows.The Ohuokhai is a simultaneous round dance and song. Dancers form a circle and dance, arm in arm, hand in hand, with the left foot put forward, while making rhythmical, graceful movements with their bodies, legs, feet and arms. A lead singer improvises the lyrics and the other dancers repeat them. This Ohuokhai leader has a special talent not only for singing but also, what is more important, for poetic improvisation. There song leaders compete at the national Yhyakh festival for the best poetic expression, best song and biggest circle.  The Turkish word Halay[2] is derived from Iranian Hālāy (هالای) meaning "to stand", "jump" and "dance".[citation needed] In Kurdish, it is known as Govend or Dîlan, in Syriac as Ḥeggāʾ (ܚܓܐ), in Azerbaijani as Yallı, in Armenian as šurǰpar (Շուրջպար), and in Greek as Chaláï (Χαλάϊ).

Horon (Greek)[1] or khoron (Turkish: horon), refers to a group of a circle folk dances from the Black Sea region of Turkey.Many Pontian dances are almost identical in steps to Greek dances. Pontian dances also resemble Persian and Middle Eastern dances in that they are not led, with no single leader in the dance formation. This is different from Greek dances but is a widespread aspect of Persian and Middle Eastern dances. A unique aspect of Pontian dance is the tremoulo, which is a fast shaking of the upper torso by a turning of the back on its axis. The rapid shoulder and upper body movements from the waist might have evolved only in modern times, during the Ottoman reign, as some people seem to believe.[citation needed] These movements are said to have derived from the shimmying of the little silver anchovy fish (Turkish hamsi) found in mass abundance in the Black Sea, which has worked its way into an inseparable part of northern Anatolian culture.


Mambo is a Latin dance of Cuba which was developed in the 1940s when the music genre of the same name became popular throughout Latin America. The original ballroom dance which emerged in Cuba and Mexico was related to the danzón, albeit faster and less rigid. In the United States, it replaced rhumba as the most fashionable Latin dance. Later on, with the advent of salsa and its more sophisticated dance, a new type of mambo dance including breaking steps was popularized in New York. This form received the name of "salsa on 2", "mambo on 2" or "modern mambo".曼波舞，有非常多姿多彩的历史，而且舞蹈风格也多种多样，是非洲和中南美洲文化的混合产物。曼波舞（MAMBO）的名字大多数人认为是来自海地的巫师祭司的称谓，曼波名字所形容的是人们陷入被催眠的狂热状态。曼波舞（MAMBO）诞生于加勒比海岛国古巴和海地，十分有趣的是在海地并没有舞蹈的名字被称为曼波舞（MAMBO），曼波的名字是指女祭司的名字，她集村子中的政治顾问，医生，占卜先知，驱魔使和公共活动的组织者。曼波舞（MAMBO）的名字就来自于这位女祭司的名字，据传说这位女祭司可以让人们产生幻觉，在大家娱乐甚至是宗教活动中表现出不同寻常的狂热状态而自我满足。加勒比海岛国古巴的音乐是曼波舞（MAMBO）音乐的基础，而最初的曼波舞（MAMBO）是以摇摆舞的 形式产生的，因为它带有很强的刺激性，能够让人们释放自己的热情，对于当时在宗教影响下的拉丁美洲人们来说无疑是一个非常吸引人的舞种。然而也正因为很多跳曼波舞（MAMBO）的人舞蹈风格“不拘小节”而被当地的教会认为是低俗的代表，和传统宗教文化有很大的冲突。当然随着宗教对人们生活影响力的逐渐弱化，拉丁美洲人也逐渐冲破了这种束缚让自己的内心感受可以自然流露。
- 《曼波女郎》是1957年上映的中国香港剧情电影，由易文执导，葛兰、陈厚、吴家骧等主演。国语黑白时装伦理歌舞片，电茂出品。葛兰当年去台湾劳军，跳“曼波舞”，三军欢呼，称她为“曼波女郎”。导演易文受到启发，编写剧本。片中还有当时最新的舞蹈样式，恰恰舞和阿飞舞。

Odissi (Odia: Oṛiśī), also referred to as Orissi in older literature, is a major ancient Indian classical dance that originated in the Hindu temples of Odisha – an eastern coastal state of India.[1][2][3] Odissi, in its history, was performed predominantly by women,[1][4] and expressed religious stories and spiritual ideas, particularly of Vaishnavism (Vishnu as Jagannath). Odissi performances have also expressed ideas of other traditions such as those related to Hindu gods Shiva and Surya, as well as Hindu goddesses (Shaktism).The theoretical foundations of Odissi trace to the ancient Sanskrit text Natya Shastra, its existence in antiquity evidenced by the dance poses in the sculptures of Odissi Hindu temples,[1][7] and archeological sites related to Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.[8][9] The Odissi dance tradition declined during the Islamic rule era,[10] and was suppressed under the British Rule.[11][12] The suppression was protested by the Indians, followed by its revival, reconstruction and expansion since India gained independence from the colonial rule.Odissi is traditionally a dance-drama genre of performance art, where the artist(s) and musicians play out a mythical story, a spiritual message or devotional poem from the Hindu texts, using symbolic costumes,[13] body movement, abhinaya (expressions) and mudras (gestures and sign language) set out in ancient Sanskrit literature.[14] Odissi is learnt and performed as a composite of basic dance motif called the Bhangas (symmetric body bends, stance). It involves lower (footwork), mid (torso) and upper (hand and head) as three sources of perfecting expression and audience engagement with geometric symmetry and rhythmic musical resonance.[15][16] An Odissi performance repertoire includes invocation, nritta (pure dance), nritya (expressive dance), natya (dance drama) and moksha (dance climax connoting freedom of the soul and spiritual release).Traditional Odissi exists in two major styles, the first perfected by women and focussed on solemn, spiritual temple dance (maharis); the second perfected by boys dressed as girls (gotipuas)[18] which diversified to include athletic and acrobatic moves, and were performed from festive occasions in temples to general folksy entertainment.[7] Modern Odissi productions by Indian artists have presented a diverse range of experimental ideas, culture fusion, themes and plays.[19] Odissi was the only Indian dance form present in Michael Jackson's 1991 hit single Black or White.


Bharatanatyam (Tamil : "பரதநாட்டியம்"), is a major genre of Indian classical dance that originated in Tamil Nadu. Traditionally, Bharatanatyam has been a solo dance that was performed exclusively by women, and it expressed South Indian religious themes and spiritual ideas, particularly of Shaivism, but also of Vaishnavismand Shaktism. Bharatanatyam's theoretical foundations trace to the ancient Sanskrit text by Bharata Muni, Natya Shastra,[6] its existence by 2nd century CE is noted in the ancient Tamil epic Silappatikaram, while temple sculptures of 6th to 9th century CE suggest it was a well refined performance art by mid 1st millennium CE. Bharatanatyam may be the oldest classical dance tradition of India. Bharatanatyam style is noted for its fixed upper torso, legs bent or knees flexed out combined with spectacular footwork, a sophisticated vocabulary of sign language based on gestures of hands, eyes and face muscles.[8] The dance is accompanied by music and a singer, and typically her guru is present as the director and conductor of the performance and art. The dance has traditionally been a form of an interpretive narration of mythical legends and spiritual ideas from the Hindu texts. The performance repertoire of Bharatanatyam, like other classical dances, includes nrita (pure dance), nritya (solo expressive dance) and natya (group dramatic dance). Bharatanatyam remained exclusive to Hindu temples through the 19th century, was banned by the colonial British government in 1910, the Indian community protested against the ban and expanded it outside the temples in the 20th century.
- scmp 15sep19 "crossing boundaries" - dance usually performed by indian women, a chinese attempted to learn


胡旋舞（英语：Sogdian Whirl），是唐代著名的健舞[注 1]，原为中亚一带的民间舞，出自昭武九姓地区，由康国等传入。胡旋舞与元代的“十六天魔舞”被视为中国最负盛名的、来自西域的古典乐舞。[1]南北朝至隋唐壁画、石画、胡俑有高加索人种男性跳胡旋舞，但也有西域胡人女子跳胡旋舞，《旧唐书·西域传》、《新唐书·西域传》和《册府元龟》有不少西域诸国进献“胡旋女”的记载。
  •  我在宁夏博物馆，看到了两扇石刻胡旋舞的墓门，全国仅此一件。门呈长方形状，上下有圆柱状榫，两门闭合处各有一孔，石门正中的“胡旋舞”雕刻画，它是唐代音乐舞蹈巅峰状态的又一明证。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20181030/PDF/b10_screen.pdf


sleeve dance
- [early music feb19 issue published by oxford] plate, wood carving, carved iory (of fatimid egypt period, late 10th to 12th c) showing woman / turbaned dancer performing asian sleeve dance

dance plague
- https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-strangest-day-in-the-entire-history-of-humanity there is a surprising amount of historical documents documenting the illness of the dance, mainly from the Middle Ages. Only one of these comes from 1374, when a great epidemic of dances broke out in Germany, the Netherlands and France, [2]where it is said that thousands of people danced from city to city screaming like demons.

drum related- [baidu]中国瑶族民间舞蹈。流行于广东、广西、湖南等省瑶族聚居地区，多在瑶族传统节日、庆祝丰收、乔迁或是婚礼喜庆的日子表演。瑶族长鼓舞的历史悠久，在瑶族传统的祭盘王仪典中和在一些驱鬼逐邪、治病占卜的巫术活动中常跳此舞。
-朝鮮族長鼓舞脫胎於朝鮮族傳統的農樂舞，它具有上千年 的歷史，舞種古老，特點典雅飄逸，馳名中外。朝鮮族長鼓舞最早起源於印度的細腰鼓，又通過絲綢之路 傳入我國中原，再傳入東朝鮮，成為朝鮮民族音樂的主要打擊 樂器。明清時期，朝鮮族從朝鮮半島遷入中國，長鼓舞隨之傳 入中國，形成了具有中國特色的朝鮮族舞蹈。「長鼓」又稱「 杖鼓」，「長鼓舞」也可稱「杖鼓舞」。目前長鼓舞主要流行 在吉林省延邊朝鮮族自治州及朝鮮族聚居地區。 
原文網址：https://kknews.cc/culture/p938zy2.html
- sansa dance

  • 岩手縣的「盛岡三颯舞」https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200731/00180_039.html



Biyelgee (Mongolian Cyrillic: Биелгээ) or Bii (Mongolian Cyrillic: Бий), is a unique form of dance, originated from the nomadic way of life. It has often been labelled in English by Chinese troupes as Mongolian bowl dancing. Almost all regions populated by different ethnic groups of Mongolia have their specific forms of Biyelgee. Especially the Western Mongols (Oirats) is famous for its Biyelgee dance.


papua new guinea
- [wisdom of pacific islanders] circular dance called raunwara (meaning whirlpool in ocean or 静水深塘, remembering their ancestors first lived in 山顶湖泊) by jimi people {note by me - raun wara is also a place in papua new guinea (no wiki page)}

australia
- [wisdom of pacific islanders] 科羅博里舞 of indigenous people can be traded as commodity (melody and lyrics)

maori
- The haka (/ˈhɑːkə/; plural haka, in both Māori and English) is a ceremonial dance or challenge in Māori culture. It is a posture dance performed by a group, with vigorous movements and stamping of the feet with rhythmically shouted accompaniment. Although commonly associated with the traditional battle preparations of male warriors, haka have been performed by both men and women,[3] and several varieties of the dance fulfil social functions within Māori culture. Haka are performed to welcome distinguished guests, or to acknowledge great achievements, occasions or funerals. Kapa haka (performing arts, lit. line dance) groups are very common in schools. The main Māori performing arts competition, Te Matatini, takes place every two years.在毛利傳說中，太陽神Ra有兩位妻子，分別是夏季Hine-raumati和冬季Hine-takurua。舞蹈的始源，歸功於夏季為太陽神生下的兒子旦那羅(Tanerore)。旦那羅為母親表演，從而產生了今天的哈卡舞。
- United States Military Academy cadets perform a haka in 2009 during an observance of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_The_U.S._Army_-_West_Point_Asian_Pacific_American_Observance_Celebration.jpg
- poi 

  • Originally warriors used poi to improve the dexterity of their wrists. The movements are circular and central to the use of all weaponry. Today it is mostly women who dance with poi. They swing them to depict the story of a song through hitting techniques and flowing movements. The sound of the poi can also be an integral component in a composition (for example, suggesting the fluttering of a bird's wings). A poi performer should show skill of movement that radiates naturally from the body.http://artsonline.tki.org.nz/Teaching-and-Learning/Secondary-teaching-resources/Dance/Reviewed-resources/Key-collection/Discovering-Dance-Teachers-Notes/Maori-dance/Dance-styles-and-props
japan
- Dainichido Bugaku (Japanese: 大日堂舞楽, literally: Important Day Dance) is a yearly set of nine sacred ritual dances and music, named for the imperial palace ensemble performances, "bugaku", and from the palace's ensemble's visit to Hachimantai, Kazuno District, Akita Prefecture, during the reconstruction of the local shrine pavilion, "Dainichido", in the early eighth century,[1] and their teaching of dances to the locals. Instruments include the flute and taiko. The order and number of dances has changed over time, with the current order of seven dances being the Gongen-mai, Koma-mai, Uhen-mai, Tori-mai, Godaison-mai, Kōshō-mai, and Dengaku-mai dances. Masks include representations of shishi and Vairocana. The dances have a 1300-year history (Nara period),[2] and though interrupted for nearly sixty years in the late eighteenth century, the dances, some of which may include children or masks, are still practiced on January second from sunrise to noon in shrines throughout communities in Osato, Azukisawa, Nagamine, and Taniuchi, including Hachimantai.


- Yosakoi (よさこい) is a unique style of dance that originated in Japan and that is performed at festivals and events all over the country. The first Yosakoi festival was held in 1954 in Kochi. Yosakoi-style dancing has spread throughout much of Japan. The style of dance is highly energetic, combining traditional Japanese dance movements with modern music. The choreographed dances are often performed by large teams. Along with a number of professional yosakoi schools and town dance teams, yosakoi is also a popular event during the sports festivals held by Japanese elementary, junior, and senior high schools. Yosakoi participants include men and women of almost all ages – sometimes within a single team.The official yosakoi dance is based on a song called "Yosakoi Naruko Dancing", written by Takemasa Eisaku. This song was created by combining elements of three songs: "Yosakoi-bushi" ("yosakoi melody"), "Yocchore" (a children's song), and "Jinma-mo" (a folk song of Kōchi Prefecture). The original competition in Kōchi requires that each team's music include some part of this original music. Competitions and festivals in other areas may not have this requirement (thus allowing teams to compose their own music), or may require that elements of different local folk songs are worked into the dance routines. Takemasa has given the copyright on "Yosakoi Naruko Dancing" to the public.Yosakoi Matsuri ("yosakoi festival") is a festival in the city of Kōchi, Japan. This is the original yosakoi festival: it has taken place every August since 1954. In this festival, teams of dancers and floats crowd to dance the yosakoi naruko dance together.1950年（昭和25年）、南国高知産業大博覧会（高知市）において「よさこい踊り」が披露された。YOSAKOI（よさこい）是一種最初由高知縣夜來祭（よさこい祭り）開始發展起來、並逐漸成為盂蘭盆節期間在日本全國各地舉行的一種祭典形態。除了起源地的高知縣之外，日本各地也廣泛舉辦類似形態之祭典，如北海道札幌市舉辦的YOSAKOI索朗祭（YOSAKOIソーラン祭り）或東京的原宿表參道元氣祭Super YOSAKOI（原宿表参道元氣祭り・スーパーよさこい）等等。
  • Yosakoi is performed in Penang, Malaysia every year in March in the middle of UNESCO Heritage City. It's organised by local enthusiasts called the Pink Hibiscus Yosakoi Dancers together with the Penang City Council, as well as in Accra, Ghana as an annual celebration to strengthen ties between Japan and Ghana. In Vietnam, yosakoi is performed annually in Japan Sakura Matsuri which is usually held in April in Hanoi by Japan Foundation Vietnam (JPF) to introduce Japanese culture. This festival showed over 10 enthusiastic Yosakoi teams of Vietnam and guest teams from Japan. Yosakoi also appears in anime-manga-cosplay events in large cities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Haiphong. Up to now, there are total 4 Vietnamese yosakoi teams participating in Harajuku Omotesando Super Yosakoi Festival, including Hanoi Sennen Yosakoi Team, Nakama Yosakoi Team, Hanuyo and Nui Truc Sakura Yosakoi Team.
  • https://web-japan.org/trends/11_culture/pop201910_yosakoi.html
  • 歌曲一首又一首地播放，有 一首的旋律我覺得耳熟，當中反 覆出現 「索朗」 一詞。我使勁兒 想，好一陣子才想起，那是日本 民歌《拉網小調》，是北海道沿 海地,區的傳統民歌，反映漁民出 海打魚的場景。這首歌在三十多 年前的中日友好之初，很多中國 人都會唱，我也會唱。http://paper.takungpao.com/resfile/PDF/20200115/PDF/b6_screen.pdf
Ganggangsullae (Hangul: 강강술래) is an ancient Korean dance that was first used to bring about a bountiful harvest and has developed into a cultural symbol for Korea. It incorporates singing, dancing, and playing and is exclusively performed by women.[1] The dance is mostly performed in the southwestern coastal province of Jeollanam-do.[1][2] It is often associated with the Chuseok holiday and Daeboreum.'Gang' of Ganggangsullae means circle, and 'sullae' means a wagon, so together it means round and round.
- scene showing dancing around a maypole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D73WBzzEG4


people
- Nadine Senior (4 October 1939 – 28 January 2016) was the founding principal of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Leeds, England.In the late 1950s she had encountered the work of Rudolf von Laban while at teacher training college, and she went on to apply his ideas while teaching PE and holding the position of deputy headmistress at Harehills Middle School in Harehills, Leeds. Forty of her pupils, mostly male, became professional dancers, including the group of young men who moved on to Intake High School and later formed the Phoenix Dance Theatre.


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