Comments on: Singing with Ancient Women’s Voices http://goddessinateapot.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/singing-with-ancient-women%e2%80%99s-voices/ Celebrating Spirituality and Art in Women's Everyday Lives Thu, 15 May 2008 21:03:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Medusa http://goddessinateapot.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/singing-with-ancient-women%e2%80%99s-voices/#comment-323 Medusa Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:33:35 +0000 http://goddessinateapot.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/singing-with-ancient-women%e2%80%99s-voices/#comment-323 This resonated with me, mostly because I've participated in Balkan folk dancing for years, and have done a little of the singing, too. In a group of people who know these dances well, many of the dancers feel a spiritual connection while doing the dances. There are women's dances that I'm convinced originated as ritual dances with Goddess content. Maybe I should blog about this sometime... <strong>I hope you do blog about it -- I also tend to believe that some folk dances are descendants of Goddess ritual dancing. Many years ago I took a workshop where we learned folk dances, some of them Greek, that are traditionally very old and are similar to those being done by women together on ancient artifacts and the instructor strongly believed in that connection. It was an amazing and vitalizing experience to do those dances in a large group knowing that women had been doing them together for thousands of years.</strong> This resonated with me, mostly because I’ve participated in Balkan folk dancing for years, and have done a little of the singing, too. In a group of people who know these dances well, many of the dancers feel a spiritual connection while doing the dances. There are women’s dances that I’m convinced originated as ritual dances with Goddess content. Maybe I should blog about this sometime…

I hope you do blog about it — I also tend to believe that some folk dances are descendants of Goddess ritual dancing. Many years ago I took a workshop where we learned folk dances, some of them Greek, that are traditionally very old and are similar to those being done by women together on ancient artifacts and the instructor strongly believed in that connection. It was an amazing and vitalizing experience to do those dances in a large group knowing that women had been doing them together for thousands of years.

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