Discover Top Posts Tagged with #tiganza

RJ’s notes Part 54 by Linda Taglieri

SOURCE

“Tiganza is danced by women, and can be danced for men, but it is considered by Tinker women a celebration of being a woman. Most movement is from the waist down, involving considerable rolling of the hips, which is emphasized by a shawl held behind the dance at waist height. The music always includes drums and is of a repetitive rhythm.”

“The sa'sara is a dance without any one set pattern or form, though it follows general patterns. Ten women dancing the sa'sara might dance without one repeating a movement or expression from any other. It is characterized by fluid and suggestive movements and hip-rolling; movements to suggest self-caressing or being caressing another; facial expressions [and gazes at the onlooker(s)] which change between those variously described as smokey, sultry, etc and those which convey startlement, as if the dancer is surprised to find herself observed (not infrequently, the dancer performs most of the dance as if unaware that anyone is watching, and the emotions expressed, facially and otherwise, upon "discovering" that she is go from surprised to coy to flirtatious to seductive); and frequently by the suggestion—never the reality—that limbs, or shoulders, or possibly even breasts, might be exposed. The clothing worn by the dancer can be skimpy or not, but nearly always it is arrayed for ease of shifting or removal, though rarely is even one piece actually removed. The shifting of clothing is such that (I) it seems a caress in itself, and (2) the body part that seems about to be exposed never is, really, yet the onlooker is left with the impression that perhaps it was.

The sa'sara is danced only by women, and always by one woman at a time.

When the sa'sara is danced as a rule (generally in the lower or rougher sort of taverns, though sometimes at private affairs) guards are usually posted to keep patrons from throwing themselves at the dancer. The dancer usually travels with a bodyguard. A dancer who can do the sa'sara with any facility is usually well paid for her dancing, and often makes ten, twenty or even a hundred times as much through the coins tossed to her by watchers.

It is generally said that the sa'sara is danced for an audience of one no matter how many eyes watch. Some say that it is in actual truth danced more often for an audience of one than for more. In general, the sa'sara is much like a belly dance, but you might say that in some ways it bears the same relationship to belly dancing that belly dancing does to ballet. Belly dancing is sexy; the sa'sara is almost a sexual act in itself.”

#Wheel of Time #notes #tiganza #sa'sara #saldea #Tinkers #Thuatha'an #robert jordan