Ancient Egyptian Dances between Past and Today | ||
| International Journal of Advanced Studies in World Archaeology | ||
| Volume 7, Issue 1, June 2024, Pages 24-32 PDF (503.58 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijaswa.2024.221187.1036 | ||
| Author | ||
| Marwa M Karam* | ||
| 11 A- Ahmed El Wakeel St.- Dar El Salam | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The Dance for the ancient Egyptians was like life soul and the joy source; through help, those doing physical movements with music rhythm inspiration them and change their mode into better condition. The Dance in ancient Egypt were vary between the funeral dances, dance for deities' satisfaction and dances for cure, all these dance types were beside the main dance. purpose for enjoyment and feeling happiness was well known in ancient Egypt. These Ancient Egyptian dances movements which well-known from prehistory periods in Egypt as offering for satisfy the deities, developed through centuries and become the icon of the dances, which most of modern civilization derived from it the dance arts movements and the way of making dances like …..Ballet dances, Flamenco dances …etc.For instance in our Egyptian intangible heritage and community culture folklore dances until now EL-Tahttyib Dance, El-Tanoura and many physical movements in the Egyptian ceremonies' dances in our life today. We give opportunity to revive again this ancient dance on the modern rhythms' music, through knowing its kinds and trying mix it with another community music culture for dancing (e.g.: Indian music). Through this paper there will be effective opinions, creative solutions for giving this art the opportunity to be reviving between past, present and saving its Egyptian identity to the future. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Dance; Ancient; Modern; Egypt; Deities | ||
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