Too bad. Another time and place perhaps.
Posted on 02/12/2010 9:29:44 PM PST by Steelfish
The first Act I of Scene I from the Winter Olympics featured a dozen or so silly if not nondescript Tribal Dances from a variety of Native American Tribes. This is not meant to be an attack on the tribes themselves. But could'nt there have been a presentation whereby they were all presented as one seamless garment under one flag?
I like most all of the ceremony xcept for the opera part w/ the big gal in the gold dress & the two speechifying windbags.
Ewh! Matt Lauer is hosting the show.
You mean, Matt Liar?
Muhamad Abbas is competing for Pakistan. Not kidding.
Totem poles are an ancient tradition and plentiful throughout British Columbia. Often carved of cedar, many public gardens have totem poles.
LOL! He mentioned his wife is Dutch and his children are half-Dutch! no kidding Matt... Or else don’t ask the milkman.
Indians loved to torture and mutilate captives from other tribes.
Did they have any of that worked into the choreography?
99% of Sweddish female delegation are blondes. I am looking if Elen Nordegren is one of them/
Pray for America and Gov Palin
Wife and I have taught in various villages, dancing at all the potlatches. Some villages they do their own happy dances, and not in English. I remember one called "Lynx up a tree" at Mentasta; they were eating lynx that night.
Up here in Eagle, it's all fiddle music. 8 Couple, duck dance, rabbit dance, red river jig and all the waltzes & they all 2 step. I usually drag the twin reverb down village hall and play all the fiddle cds;;;; old Harold Frost from Old Crow over in Canada is the man. Great time at New Years, the Indians get tuned and dance all night, ha. My wife hates me for a week as I drag her out on the floor; but it's a good time. In the summer, I take the amp down and face out over the Yukon and they dance in the grass. I have a bunch of Patsy Cline Kareokie dvds; now they really go nuts with the mike. I've even taken my fiddle down when any of their cousins come in from Venetie, arctic Village, Chalkeesic, Ft Yukon, Stevens, who play the fiddle. Some great Indian fiddle players. throw down some corn meal and let the cous play all night.
These jokers making fun about Native music ain't even got whiskyed up with good Indians and danced all night. I've seen blind 90 year olds out on the floor and they'd put me to shame, they still had it together. Or watching how the women from every village dance just a little different in their style as it's their villages trademark.
I must be the only white guy on here who gets along with the Indians; kinda enjoy being around them too; especially when they get to dancing. Even when you get stuck dancing with all the old grandmas; ha then they all kinda see you as not being a screwed Gasuch.
At first glance, I thought Wayne Newton had slipped into the opening ceremonies. K. D. is wearing a much larger men's suit these days.
Ceremony was good, but every song and every other separate performance seemed to last far too long.
Well, they could have some displays of 16th-century European witch-burnings, for starters, to match the Natives.
Very Colorful! “Colored People”?
I can’t stand to watch people wearing “tribal” costumes with plastic beads in flourescent colors, and fake fur. The tribal crafts I see today are for the most part junky toys copied from Chinese copies of the real thing.
Bingo!
It sounds like you really enjoy your life in AK. How did you end up there from Western PA?
Too meandering. A hodge-podge of dances! Although the magic of light was well done.
I don't need the "tale of the tape" kind of coverage of artistry.
-PJ
These jokers making fun of about native music-—
Again someone who knows something ssys it well. My one and only experience was a pow-wow I attended a few months ago. Not a big deal but sufficient to show tradition and grace and having a whole lot of fun.
And yeah- grandma right out there along with the little kids, some being babes in arms being held while the parents danced.
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