Exam 1 Flashcards
Arioi
Polynesian actor/ Tahitian Secret Society
Ballet
European dance drama
Bhangra
Harvest dance/ India
Bharta Natyam
Single female dancer/ India
Chief Big Foot
(Souix) after Sitting Bulls death at Standing Rock Reservation went to Wounded Knee
Chief Sitting Bull
Standing Rock Reservation, attempted to be arrested
Choreography
Art of designing a sequence of steps and how it is presented
Cultural Identity
Identity of a group or individuals, sense of belonging to a cultural group
Literal Guesture
Storytelling, means something
Non- Literal Guesture
Hand gestures mean nothing, just part of a move
Ghost Dance
Close to a Pow-Wow, dancing till they would pass out, brought tribes together, Ghost shirts
Hakas
War dance, Polynesian Islands
Hopi Snake Dance
Snakes were the medium between the living and the dead, it would bring them rain and good farming season, snake brothers
Hora
Jewish wedding dance, (serpentine dance)
Jerusarema
Same dance as the Mbende, different era, danced in beer halls and then danced for sexual arousal
Khmer Rouge
Captured Cambodia in 1975 and whipped out the Kings Dancers
Kings Dancers
Dance groups of male and female that would dance in the kings court as entrainment. Whipped out when the Khmer Rouge took over. A group of 20 dancers toured the U.S.
Krishna
Indian saint, widely worshiped
Mbende
War dance, (mouse that runs fast), girls distracted the enemies and then would let the men know when to attack
Oro
Tahitian God of fertility, rain and war. (Main god of Arioi)