Explore the living tradition of trance dancing, the practice of connecting with the subtle energies and secret knowledge of spirits through rhythmic movement to music.
Feline trance dance
These are used as a means of establishing contact with the spirits of the ancestors, who continue to play an important part in the lives of their descendants as moral beacons in the solution of problems and the fulfillment of wishes.
That's how the whole idea of task - oriented movement and my particular interest in Mabel Todd and her approach in her book The Thinking Body arose at the time . I was interested in going back to my roots with my original teacher ...
Tafjord, Bjørn Ola (2016), 'Scales, Translations, and Siding Effects: Uses of indígena and religion in Talamanca and beyond', in C. Hartney and D. J. Tower (eds), Religious Categories and the Construction of the Indigenous, 138–77, ...
The division of labour among the actors in the dance was thought to directly mirror the division of labour in ... However, the functionalist assumptions remain largely intact even though the trance dances can serve a number of functions ...
Challenging the prevailing conception of racial difference as a purely social construction and offering building on the works of Gilles Deleuze and Flix Guattari, Psychedelic White presents nothing less than a new materialist approach to ...
Trance dance: sekvenser
As Susan Foster indicates in Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion (New York: Oxford, 2019), 29–30, the idea of space as a process has been theorized in Henri LeFebvre, The Production of Space (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991); David ...
Female trance - dancers also describe their participation in singing ceremonies as an intensification and culmination of longing for male spirits . We recall a Temiar woman's comment , discussed in chapter 4 : Barcnlii ' .