Integrating the Performing Arts
The students read the introduction to Integrating the Performing Arts and summarized the main ideas discussed in the introduction.
Neolithic Ritual: Circle Dance
Link: Circle Dance Class - 2018 The students were exposed to their first experience with ritual dance, a type of dance that evokes movement metaphors, gestural symbols and conscious trance as essential components of nonverbal communication. Using an ancestral Neolithic dance as a reference, the Taino's areito , the class was organized around the idea of a circular formation, moving counterclockwise, with a steady forward and backward step that resembled the movement of the hurricane. They connected with each other by making eye contact, holding hands and being part of the same circle, or as someone mentioned, the same cycle of life. The group accompanied its own dance with their own voices by layering vowel sounds that created a harmonious common and unified voice, otherwise described as a cacophony of sounds. Movement and voice became one performative unit as they swung their arms up an down, singing and dancing to t...
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