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23rd March 2012, 10:00 PM | #1 |
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Arabian Sword Dances (And other dances!)
Just thought this will be interesting to post:
1- Najdi Ardha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9NgnthZu18 (best performance I found. So you think you can dance King Abdullah version.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgcYC...feature=fvwrel (this one is nice too) 2- Ardha Janoobiya - Southern Ardha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJVtc...eature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBvaw...eature=related (Michael bin Jackson ) 3- Ardhat Bisha: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV7LlHVsPv4 (Videos on the side are not all viewer's friendly, so please avoid drifting into the darkside of Youtube.) 4- Ardha Qatariya: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAa9S...eature=related 5- Ardhat Ala alZeer (Utaiba tribe, more on this later) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v82vHdRz7-Q 6- Zamil of southern Arabia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WhLu...eature=related ---- More will be added later, I dont claim to be an expert on these dances and do not know when they are done (as I am sure some of them are done in certain occasions, the Zamil for example.. as far as I know is done when 2 tribes meet) |
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24th March 2012, 10:15 AM | #4 |
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us 'mericans also have a sword dance.
Bush Sword Dance English sword dance note the flexible blades and lack of guards Morris Dancers Yorkshire long sword dancers More, with some history Scots version - somewhat more ostentatious & using real swords. Edinburg Tattoo Sword Dance russian version guardless swords... Russian dance Last edited by kronckew; 24th March 2012 at 11:02 AM. |
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I agree however that the particular swords in hands of the dancers in the video provided are modern-made theater/dance replicas, not authentic pieces of course. But they have historic battle-ready prototype. Last edited by Devadatta; 24th March 2012 at 10:29 PM. |
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25th March 2012, 11:50 PM | #6 |
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Fascinating videos , I would love to know more about the context of these, ref. the stuff from the Islamic world. Re the UK, worth remembering that we lost so many young men in WW1 that for a generation the Morris dancing tradition was kept alive by womens teams, and so we may have lost some of the nuances of that form.
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