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26th May 2020, 07:06 PM
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The Rugova war dance (Albanian: Vallja me shpata e Rugovës or Loja Luftarake e Rugovës; Serbian: Борбена руговска игра) is a traditional Albanian sword dance named after the Rugova region in Kosovo.
Description Rugova dance is considered a relic of the war dances (Albanian: valle luftarake), the remnants of pantomimic dances performed in the re-enactment or preparation of battles. The dance is performed by two male dancers who fight a mock battle for the hand of a girl (a "maiden's dance" It was made internationally famous by the Kosovo Albanian Rugova clans (hailing from Kelmend in Albania). The dance is also found in mountainous Montenegro, where a tribe of shepherds settled in the 18th century. source: wiki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8shckj-fXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5i4qS0brMw 2 paintings : The Sword Dance (1890) by Paja Jovanović. The Sword Dance (1885) by Jean-Léon Gérôme. |
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27th May 2020, 09:24 PM
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Have posted this a while back, it's the war dance from Halmahera called Cakalele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...ature=emb_logo
Filmed from my wife in beginning of this year. |
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21st June 2020, 11:23 PM
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into some romance...? but be warned...."not for the faint-hearted"
The knife dance is a Persian wedding ritual. The bridesmaids swipe the cake knife and the groom has to pay up to get the knife back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiGSNmKKsvY |
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21st June 2020, 11:35 PM
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Sioux ghost and buffalo dance filmed by Thomas Edison in 1894
(only the first 20 secs one can clearly see some weapons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQGW5a0q51w |
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23rd June 2020, 10:20 PM
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our dearest friends in Mexico were in Precolumbian times already very familiar with sword & club like weapons
like the Aztec's Macuahuitl ( the one with feathers called 'hungry wood') and a similar one from the Maya's ( called 'blade runner") Hence they had no issue replacing it in later times by the machete. Incorporated into a dance on Mariachi music. Like these Native Americans from Mexico in the 1st YouTube film Don't try this at home... unless you finish a bottle of Mescal .... and eat the worm.... arriba....andele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esRnl2PlxzA and if your name is not Speedy Gonzales..., you can always start like this little muchacho  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ykp-YVpGPU Last edited by gp; 24th June 2020 at 02:50 PM. |
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3rd September 2020, 10:33 PM
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a Tamil dance from India 1949 with knives @ 1:40 min. by the Travancore Sisters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HUpgOmxdFI |
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3rd September 2020, 10:56 PM
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in the Netherlands there is a big Mollucan community, most from the Southern Islands like (Ambon), but each with their own traditions and cultural variety
Hereby 3 examples from the Northern Islands being wardances : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEi2zZsxIlQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0umgOUzzQtQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WGMCfupIxg Fierce not only by their looks but these men were fierce as warriors as well, a picture of WW II and one from 1874 in Atjeh Last edited by gp; 4th September 2020 at 01:41 AM. |
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