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Stinky The Clown

(67,790 posts)
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 07:51 PM Mar 2022

Dancers live and breathe their art

I know. I am married to one. In Ukraine, their last performances were the night before the war started.

Today, they are holding automatic weapons - men and women, obviously resolute in their mission. NBC news interviewed several dancers. A woman telling us her company members are all in the country and ighting for it. A man is now building tank traps out of steel.

Meanwhile, here in the ol' USofA we can't wear masks without whining.

Some of the Ukrainians no doubt have danced the roles of snowflakes.

In this country, the whiners ARE snowflakes.

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Dancers live and breathe their art (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Mar 2022 OP
Dance and War. old as dirt Mar 2022 #1
Thank you. Sparkly will be interested in that. Stinky The Clown Mar 2022 #3
The story is coming up again Joy Reid's hour 7.17 pm Stinky The Clown Mar 2022 #2
 

old as dirt

(1,972 posts)
1. Dance and War.
Wed Mar 9, 2022, 08:06 PM
Mar 2022

First part of a 4 part documentary of afrocolombiabo dance.

This part is about Cauca, my wife's department (one of 26 departments in Colombia).

I wouldn't want to be that dude at 22:20.

"If I can't dance, then I don't want to be in your revolution." - Emma Goldman

Danza Colombia: Trayecto Pacífico - Libertad



Costumbres como los rituales de sanación de mal de ojo y espanto nos llevan a aquellos pueblos del margen del río Timbiquí donde aún se conservan hábitos que fueron heredados por generaciones y que tienen su origen en Africa, lugar de donde proviene no solo la raza sino muchos de los conocimientos y tecnologías que hoy hacen parte de nuestra cultura. Lugares como este, alejado y selvático revelan ciertas tradiciones que se han sabido guardar como lo es el baile del Bambuco viejo, una danza que nació entre hombres y mujeres esclavizados en el siglo XVIII en el Cauca y que es madre de muchas danzas del pacífico como lo son el currulao, la bambara o la moña. Sin embargo estas comunidades se ven amenazadas por la explotación minera; de la misma forma que las comunidades que habitan las montañas del norte caucano (Suarez, Buenos Aires) y del sur del valle del río cauca ( Robles, Puerto Tejada, Villa Rica y Santander de Quilichao). Sus habitantes, campesinos y pescadores se liberaron del yugo esclavista gracias al manejo profesional de su machete, técnica de defensa que se llamó la Esgrima y que usaron los hijos de esclavizados para participar en las batallas libertadoras y contribuir con la independencia del país. Hoy estas prácticas se han fusionado con manifestaciones danzarias del pasado como los torbellinos y revelan las maneras del afrocolombiano del siglo XIX. El pasillo, el bambuco viejo, los torbellinos: caucano o de calle, así como los bailes improvisados de las jugas que acompañan los toques campesinos de violín en las verbenas o fiestas de adoración navideñas, nos permiten reconocer un mundo rico en expresiones, que requiere de la danza y el baile para respirar libertad y olvidar las penas; que se enseña de generación en generación y que pervive como testimonio de una raza que siempre ha sido libre de pensamiento, creadora al máxime y alegre a pesar de su dolor.

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Customs such as the healing rituals of the evil eye and espanto take us to those villages on the banks of the Timbiquí River where habits are still preserved that were inherited for generations and that have their origin in Africa, where not only the race comes from but also many of the knowledge and technologies that today are part of our culture. Places like this, remote and jungle reveal certain traditions that have been saved as is the dance of the Bambuco Viejo, a dance that was born between men and women enslaved in the eighteenth century in Cauca and is the mother of many Pacific dances such as the currulao, the bambara or the moña. However, these communities are threatened by mining exploitation, as are the communities that inhabit the mountains of northern Cauca (Suarez, Buenos Aires) and southern Cauca River Valley (Robles, Puerto Tejada, Villa Rica and Santander de Quilichao). Its inhabitants, peasants and fishermen freed themselves from the yoke of slavery thanks to the professional handling of their machete, a defense technique called fencing, which was used by the children of enslaved people to participate in the liberation battles and contribute to the country's independence. Today these practices have merged with dance manifestations of the past such as the whirlwinds and reveal the ways of the Afro-Colombian of the 19th century. The pasillo, the bambuco viejo, the torbellinos: caucano or street, as well as the improvised dances of the jugas that accompany the peasant violin playing in the verbenas or Christmas worship parties, allow us to recognize a world rich in expressions, that requires dance and dance to breathe freedom and forget sorrows; that is taught from generation to generation and that survives as testimony of a race that has always been free in thought, creative to the fullest and joyful in spite of its pain.
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