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khanjar · 07-06-2008, 05:47 AM

It is interesting though how many professional dancers spout about ME dance being of the Goddess tradition on their instructional DVD's. It strikes me as if people coming into ME dance get these videos where a respected professional dancer starts harping on about ME dance being from the misty dawn of time and long forgotten Goddess rituals, this fantasy is only going to get worse. Perhaps the point will come where in the future unless this fantasy is addressed, the origin of ME dance will be of the Goddess, because everyone will believe that from all the tuition they have had via DVD.

Check out some of the big dance companies on Youtube, the ones where they do a short intro for the DVD's they are promoting.

Dancing being any dance type I understand as a spiritual affair, I feel the spirit soar when I get lost in ME music and dance, only this dance, as it is the only style I am drawn to and there is something I cannot quite put my finger on about dance pieces to the call of drums, the drum solo. If dance is spiritual, I wonders at the similarities between dance and actions of the shamen.

07-06-2008, 05:47 AM	#216 (permalink)
khanjar Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: England Posts: 442	It is interesting though how many professional dancers spout about ME dance being of the Goddess tradition on their instructional DVD's. It strikes me as if people coming into ME dance get these videos where a respected professional dancer starts harping on about ME dance being from the misty dawn of time and long forgotten Goddess rituals, this fantasy is only going to get worse. Perhaps the point will come where in the future unless this fantasy is addressed, the origin of ME dance will be of the Goddess, because everyone will believe that from all the tuition they have had via DVD. Check out some of the big dance companies on Youtube, the ones where they do a short intro for the DVD's they are promoting. Dancing being any dance type I understand as a spiritual affair, I feel the spirit soar when I get lost in ME music and dance, only this dance, as it is the only style I am drawn to and there is something I cannot quite put my finger on about dance pieces to the call of drums, the drum solo. If dance is spiritual, I wonders at the similarities between dance and actions of the shamen. __________________ I am a dream to some...and a nightmare to others. Last edited by khanjar; 07-06-2008 at 06:00 AM.