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Old 01-20-2008, 10:59 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Or dancing with a water jug (large earthen one)?
Water jugs are traditional in Tunisian dance. Often with more than one

With snakes, I read an interview with Jamila Salimpour where she explained how Bal Anat with its circus focus had a man with a snake. For some reason she was left looking after the snake and had to go on stage and dance so she incorporated the snake into the act and it became a fixture. This would have been late 1960s/1970s. At this point I'd say this was the first use in association with the dance. Anyone got anything earlier?
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