Monday, April 30, 2007
Yay!!!! TOMORROW IS HOLIDAY!!!! Because its Labour Day and I get to stay at home and do nothing other than read my storybook and laze around!! Yeah me!!!! So exciting!!! Now today is about Ritual and Ceremony of Sioux Native at North America... My group did very well, tumbs up to Charlene and Sheng!! ^.^ Shaun and Ling Hui didn't come to school and I think they planned for a long weekend holiday!! =)
Here's today RJ and I think I wrote quite a lot!!!
What do you think when a ritual dance became a play for tourist??
I think that when a ritual dance became a play for tourist there’s good and bad thing when a ritual dance is being expose to the public. For example the Sun Dance that being practice by the Native Indian of America, the dance is a spiritual dance and the dance consist of buffalo challenge where the native people of Sioux fight against the buffalo to challenge their physical and mental. If the person faints too long, he is consider as a weak because they don’t dare to fight against the buffalo after being knock down by it. The ritual was being banned by the Government of United States in 1904 but it wasn’t being expose to the people outside of the Native Indians as they practically practices the ritual in private.
The good thing about the ritual dance became a play for the tourist is to allow the tourist to see the beauty of the ritual dance and joined the native people who perform the ritual dance for them. For example of ritual dance became a play for tourist is the Hawaiian Hula Dance, the dance became a play for tourist when there’s tourist who visits or stays at the hotel. The hotel managements will make an arrangement of Hula Dance being perform as a welcome to the tourist who stays in the hotel with the local dance school or the hotel’s own Hula dancer. This is to allow the tourist to see the beauty of the Hula Dance and the gracefulness of the body language that being sent out by the dancer.
Another example would be the Haka Dance by the Native people at New Zealand; the Haka Dance was being use by the New Zealand All Blacks when they were facing opponents from another country or before the rugby competition begins. The beauty of the Haka Dance is you can see how united and the spirits to perform the Haka Dance.
The bad thing about the ritual dance became a play for the tourist is the ritual dance won’t be a ritual dance anymore and the people won’t come back to the country where the rituals dance performance for the tourist. This is because the tourist will be able to capture the dance in video since the advance in technology. When a ritual dance being expose to the tourist, the native people who perform it or the native people, they feels that insecure because they won’t feel that their ritual dance is a sacred or spiritual dance anymore but a performance to entertain the tourist. For example the Sun Dance, once it was practiced widely by the Native Indians tribe at North America and now they are being banned from being perform widely because of the spiritual sacrifice of the native people challenging the buffalo. It is consider a dangerous stunt to do because it could cause death to the person if he is physical, mentally and spiritually strong.
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