Dear Khanjar and Andrea,
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Originally Posted by khanjar
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.
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Well.... respected, responsible professionals do not spout off about the dance being connected to any goddesses, or gods. They take responsibility to deliver the facts to the best of their ability.
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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.
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I would have to say that we should not believe everything we see on Youtube any more than we should take Wikipedia as gospel....
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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.
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This would depend very much on what one means by spirituality. I am a Panthiest and believe there is never any disconnection from "God", if you will. For me,one experience is not more spiritual than another, though some can definitely make me happier or more aware than others. I can feel my spirit soar in the same way from a hundred different experiences, but does that mean that this or that experience is more "spiritual", than say, a not so wonderful experience? Spirituality is something that encompasses much more than our feelings. (We humans always seem to want to make everything about us!) There are in fact religions that proclaim that one has to move outside that kind of attachment to be truly "spiritual". I disagree since I think its all about the senses here, but what do I really know about it in the long run? No more or less than any other person. We are all just guessing!
Regards,
A'isha