Re: Drumming and Bellydancing

Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 14:27:51 CST
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In article <3e8e22eb$0$25169$email-address-deleted>, Yowie
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I have heard a drum circle, one that went on into late into the night,
its very primal, you cant help reacting to it, your heartbeat seems to
beat in time to the rhythm...
Whenever I go to pagan events, I look out for those drum circles, I
would love to just dance, just move with the beat, I cant belly dance,
Well these days I cant dance at all, but the need to move with that
blasting rhythm is their. I know just what you mean.
Pre recorded drum circles, just don't carry the power, and punch of the
real thing, The same way as hearing an orchestra play in front of you,
is so different to hearing that same orchestra on disc.
You cant capture that sound, the vibrations in the air...
Shez
>I had the priveledge of going to a belly dancing show last night.
>
>There were two parts in the show where instead of playing pre-recorded
>music, the women of the group took their drums up and made their own
>rhythms. I've never seen these drums before, they are long and have a
>"waist" in the middle, and produce all sorts of different sounds depending
>on where you strike them. I was most impressed and now have drum lust....
>
>The reason I am posting here about it though is because thats the closest
>I've ever been to a drumming circle. Now, watching the talented belly
>dancers really get into the rhythm, dancign away with passion, and
>exhuberance, while 10 different people managed to weave an intricate,
>circling, spiralling beat until the belly dancers were flinging themselves
>about with what appeared to be absolute gay abandon, lost in the beat, the
>moment, the building energy, having let go of any reservation, hesitation,
>and letting their whole sexuality, their whole being expressed in one
>incredibly exotic, erotic, dance until the whole thing climaxed into one mad
>well, orgasm of drums and hips and sparkling sequins
>
>Well, now I think I might understand drum circles a little better.
>
>I can now also understand how belly dancing came to be - its a very feminine
>thing IMHO. And if women were never allowed to express their passion
>exhuberance and sexuality in general society but were free to do as they
>will in the company of other women and women only, then I can fully
>understand and appreciate the wild exotic spritually freeing thing that is
>belly dancing, the letting go of all the eartly worries and inhibitions,
>letting it all hang out and *celebrating* its form and shape in a way that
>is otherwise forbidden.
>
>Although no mention of anything Pagan was made, as it was technically "just"
>a dance show, my pagan receptors caught and understood something deep and
>primeval within me and wanted to join in. I have absolutley no doubt that
>being able dance well infront of an audience is a practiced skill, but just
>to get in there and shake my (rather ample) booty while the drums build up
>into their own kind of ecstasy is something even I can do, in fact, I think
>it is built into everyone, like an ancient tribal memory.
>
>Something deep and incredibly passionate and spiritual was stirred in my
>last night, and it won't settle back down. The need to move to spiralling
>drums, to express my basic womanly sensuality, and dance jubilantly for the
>sheer joy and gift of life (if not gift of dancing skills) has awoken. I am
>taken aback by how spiritual the simple act of drum & dancing can be. Looks
>like I'll be going to belly dancing school, and each shake of the hip, and
>wobble of the flesh will be from the Goddess that is within me, is me.
>
>I am blown away.
>
>Yowie
>
>
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