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Five lives converge on this narrow stage,
A sidewalk symphony of the modern age.
Each step a note in the day's grand score,
A dance of humanity, forever more.
W A K A Y A M A - J A P A N
Nachi no Dengaku is a Japanese folk performing art, manner of dance and music have been fixed through it’s long tradition by the local people of Nachi to wish for an abundant harvest of rice crops.
Performed with flute player, drummers and Binzasara players a repertoires of 22 dance and music on a 4m square stage inside Kumano Nachi Shrine during the annual Nachi fire festival.
In 1976 it was designated as an Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.
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For centuries, the Apsara dance was passed down from royal family to royal family until the 1950s when Queen Preah Maha Kshatriyani Kossamak chose her granddaughter Princess Norodom Buppha Devi at age 5 to train in the ballet. By age 18, she was awarded the title of Prima Ballerina and toured internationally with the newly created Cambodian Royal Ballet to share Khmer heritage and culture with the world. This was the first time the Apsara was performed outside of the royal court. During the dark days of the Khmer Rouge from 1975 – 1979, thousands of artists, scholars, and intellectuals were tortured and murdered. It’s estimated that over 90% of the dancers and musicians in the Royal Palace and Phnom Penh were imprisoned, tortured, and/or killed. With peace restored in 1991, surviving artists, including Her Royal Highness Princess Buppha Devi herself, began the difficult task of searching for new dancers in the hopes of revitalizing this important piece of cultural heritage.
The key feature of the Apsara dance are the intricate hand movements, of which there are an unbelievable 1,500 of them to learn. The different poses are known as kbach and relate to elements of nature such as flowers, leaves, and fruit. In addition to these kbach, dancers must perfect 3,000 different poses like rolling hips, arched backs, and bent feet. Those who wish to learn this dance start when they are young, and teachers are said to use scarves to bring the fingers into the correct position until muscle memory takes over. Notice the extreme hyperextension of the fingers (try doing that with one finger without applying any outside force!). It takes 9 years to learn and perfect the dances. The movements of the whole body work as a kind of sign language where one subtle difference makes a completely different expression. For example, the jeeb, when the thumb and pointer finger are pressed together as the other three fingers fan out is a common symbol in Khmer culture. It can represent anything from bashfulness and love to laughter or sorrow. One hand with the fingers straight up and bent back can mean ‘leave’ while two hands in the same position but crossed at the wrist symbolizes ‘love’.
Dried Tulips. Sometimes some flowers will lose their petals while others will just ‘mummify’ in the warmth of the studio conditions.
I know that some people are not keen on decay and that others love it.
But here I saw such beauty still, in the shapes and the colours.
Another of my personal favourites.
I just HAD to photograph them!
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Dance contest 'The Magic of Dance' (XV Ogólnopolski Konkurs Taneczny 'Magia Tańca'), Ostrów Wielkopolski, Poland
Fire dancing (also known as "fire twirling," "fire spinning," "fire performance," or "fire manipulation") is a group of performance arts or disciplines that involve manipulation of objects on fire. Typically these objects have one or more bundles of wicking, which are soaked in fuel and ignited.
Some of these disciplines are related to juggling or baton twirling (both forms of object manipulation), and there is also an affinity between fire dancing and rhythmic gymnastics. Firedancing is often performed to music. Fire dancing has been a traditional part of cultures from around the world, and modern fire performance often includes visual and stylistic elements from many traditions.