drum dancing
Percussive movement art
Drum dancing is a traditional form of expression among Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and subarctic regions, combining rhythmic drumming with movement and often vocal performance.
The dancer typically holds and plays a large frame drum while executing stylized movements.
Performances may be ceremonial, celebratory, or competitive: The community gathered for an evening of drum dancing.
- rhythmPatterned stress and silence
- steady beatConsistent rhythmic pulse
- beatRhythmic pulse or strike
- circleCurved closed shape
- tribalOf a clan
ceremonial · powwow · eagle feather · stomping · chanting · firelight · pulse · movement · sweat · community · trance · celebration · ritual · sweat lodge · feet · hands · skin · resonance
- Arctic Culturesigloo building, kayak, dogsled, dog sledding, seal hunting
- Canadian ArcticNunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon, Baffin Island, Yellowknife
- Alaska NativesAleut, Unangan, Athabaskan, Athabascan, Haida
- Dene culturehand games, traditional territory, traditional lands, moose hunting, traplines
- Inuvialuitiglu, kayak, umiak, ulu, mukluk
- Tlichotraditional territory, self-government
drum dancingclassical ballet
Formal European theatrical dance
court dance · ballroom dancing · minuet · waltz · cotillion
drum dancingballet
Classical dance on pointe
lyrical dance · adagio · pointe work · modern dance · stillness
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