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- A folk dance is a dance that reflects the life of the people of a certain country or region. Not all ethnic dances are folk dances. For example, ritual dances or dances of ritual origin are not considered to be folk dances. Ritual dances are usually called "religious dances" because of their purpose.
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What is Religious Dance? The earliest dances were likely tied to religion, using movement as part of rituals. Belief systems embraced dance as a way to connect to higher powers that influenced everyday life.
- Religious and Social Dance – So You Think You Know Dance?
The earliest dances were likely tied to religion, using...
- Religious and Social Dance – So You Think You Know Dance?
The earliest dances were likely tied to religion, using movement as part of rituals. Belief systems embraced dance as a way to connect to higher powers that influenced everyday life. Other religions eschewed dance or banned it for several different reasons.
Sacred dance is the use of dance in religious ceremonies and rituals, present in most religions throughout history and prehistory. Its connection with the human body and fertility has caused it to be forbidden by some religions; for example, some branches of Christianity and Islam have prohibited dancing.
- The Power of Ritual
- The Building of Communities Through Ritual and Dance
- The Zār Healing Dance Ritual
- The !Kung Medicine Dance – Ritual Healing
- Conclusion – The Power of Ritual and Dance
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In the book The Forest of Symbols (1967) Turner defines ritual as follows – “by ‘ritual’ I mean prescribed formal behaviour for occasions not given over to technological routine, having reference to beliefs in mystical beings or powers.” Rituals bring people together and are at their core a mechanism that helps build the spirit of a community (Jone...
Research has shown that rituals are even more powerful at building community when they involve the social group in coordinated synchronized movement, creating a form of ‘‘muscle bonding’’ (McNeill as cited in Wiltermuth, Heath 2009). This creates a highly charged and emotional atmosphere, described by Durkheim(1915) as “effervescence” and by Radcli...
In this essay I will be looking at the Iranian version of the Zār healing dance ritual performed in some regions of Northern and Eastern Africa and the Persian Gulf, as well as the Medicine Dance of the ǃKung Bushmen from the Nyae Nyae region in South West Africa, showing how they (1) consist of behaviours that are specific to the ritual and not da...
The first stage of the medicine dance consists of the women building a fire and sitting around it in a tight circle, singing the medicine songs and clapping to the rhythm. This preliminary stage takes several hours and is critical for the ritual to be effective, because the medicine songs activate the n/umin the hearts of the medicine men and heats...
In conclusion, it is clear that rituals are critical to bring together societies and hold them together over time. Furthermore, incorporating synchronised movement and dance in the ritual makes it even more powerful in generating strong community ties, so much so that it has even been proposed as a differentiator in societal evolution, with groups ...
Alcorta, C.S. and Sosis, R., 2005. Ritual, emotion, and sacred symbols: The evolution of religion as an adaptive complex. Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.); Hum Nat, 16(4), pp. 323-359. Beeman, W.O., 2018. Understanding the Zār: An African-Iranian Healing Dance Ritual. Anthropology of the Middle East, 13(1), pp. 69. De Largy Healy, J., 2017. ‘This Pai...
Dance is also incorporated in Christianity and Judaism. Mentions of dance are present in all of their holy books that date from 2000 years ago, and the followers of these religions continue to preserve dance and incorporate it into daily rituals.
Ritual dances are structured movements performed as part of a ceremony or religious practice, often carrying significant cultural or spiritual meaning. These dances serve as a way to express beliefs, commemorate events, and connect participants to their community and traditions.
Contemporary Western dance performances in places of worship, referred to as sacred, liturgical, or midrash dance (search for biblical meaning in the Torah through improvisational movement); public theaters; film; television; and on the internet perpetuate the tradition of dance explaining religion.
