Māre gān workshop cum training- An approach to continue the motion

On September, 2014 we will gather for Rabha Folklore archiving and preservation.The outcome will be realised at a community space of Goalpara, Assam with an environment of village envelop. http://youtu.be/woYT6pscdII

poem

Where are you?

Can you come for a moment?

Do not you want to see the earth is weeping so deep insight?

For her uncontrolled rapidity

Of voices

Of slang

Of loves

Of terrors

And so many other pieces of obvious emotions!

It becomes wilder than u made!

Why do not you come here and take her with you for a moment?

Where there are plenty of peace and calm

Where the heart never cry for another heart

Neither suffers for nothing strange

Where face is clean as core inside

Where there is no dark

Where there is no pain

No tears

….

Or if u can make her dumb so that she needs not to reply and

There will be no misuse of mother’s affection

Make her deaf so that she cannot feel as the bearer of cruelty & voices

Make her blind so that she needs not to witness the bitter truth,

Else, you can come every night to her

Make her sleep giving pledge to protect

From terrible inhuman gentlemen

…

I am here to speak to you once

The dark world

The dark body and

The dark wishes of those

Who are not known to me and some are closer intimates

I have few minutes and talked with you for a while…

Did you visit her??

When I met her last time

It was almost finished her painting with blood and sharing it

To the heaven in the bright light.

On World Dance Day,29th of April-2014

Is it logical to say the ‘Dance’ as a treatment of sufferings in human life?

Dance, a physical artistic activity nevertheless thought as a treatment of common nuisance. Besides entertaining to restless mind in podium, the dance is also helpful in other way around both for the dancers and the viewers or the audience. My indication is towards the ‘healing’, a process of emotional and spiritual remedy from the abnormal state of mind. The abnormality which may grows from common trauma, troubles etc. All of us face our life more or less through mental sufferings.

History tells us about the shamans as well as other healing practices exist in different corners of the world. In fact, they are still believed among many group of people. The Deodhani practice of India (celebrated as a shamanic festival every year at Kamakhya temple of Guwahati, Assam) can be drawn attention in this regard. Healing teaches us material and non-material world, mostly implemented to those who partly lost their life-essence. Life essence is the energy that keeps us going, takes interested in life-in learning things and in challenges. It also helps us to trust ourselves. Most of us face depressions, fatigue in the cause of traumatic situation where part of life essence is lost. Those people might involve in spiritual matters to understand the ordinary or material world, might obsess with the trauma, and might feel something is missing. Those people feel lack of energy, depressed, ill and untrusting due to the emotional effect of the trauma. A healer can get back the essence of life. A shamanic healer can find and retrieve one's life essence. Their healing technique is called soul retrieval. The shamanistic dance, folk dance, dance with spiritual overtone, Martial art, dance of popular culture etc. might have something else beyond their artistic moves and bents. These arts try to speak not only the rhythm but also a narration through moves.

The world is growing day by day acquiring unlimited sources of achievement. We are grabbing a lot at ease but at the same we are also not free from social and political strain. The traditional lore binds us together with our people in a cultural situation. We often become gender sensitive as because of controlled by rites and rituals made by our previous sufferer. Those are actually the lore inherited in generation from past and also very much reflected in various practices or social forms such as folk dance and music. The free flow of mental and physical energy is allowed to flourish in various folk dances.

Dancers find themselves confident to express and communicate their sub conscious desire. Dance helps to divert the concentration from an ordinary life into a different world of beautification with passion, control and balance. It may help to be logical, cultural, compassionate and spiritual. Dance, as a form of Narrative Art uses songs/lyrics or rhythmic beat to communicate the viewers. Performing a narrative or story Indian Dancers traditionally portray the mythological story and circumstances such as of Krishna-Radha, Ram-Sita etc. The artists temporarily get into the characters to uplift the audience about the scenic beauty and it is said that the characters of portraying spirit are imagined to be embodied into the dancers and uplift the souls of both dancer and audience. This kind of spiritual healing help to flow the energy freely that again helps to transform the inner being.

Different Dance movements and twist of the body also help to strengthen the bodily problems. Research said that the popular western Belly dance has a positive approach towards the difficult stages of womanhood such as menstruation, sexualities and bodies. Health requires a free flow of energy that one can accomplish his/her desire. Dance can be used in feelings, when one’s energy is blocked in many ways.

An Indian Dance has possible quality to uplift the inner being into a world of cheerful and self esteem. Dances have their own language of expression and Indian Dance has definite nomenclature of kinesics (Angahara and Karana) along with elaborated meaningful gesture. This might help the dancers to express the unsaid in an environment of symbolic beautification. The traditional Indian dance has seductive, ascentic as well as yogic postures that help to balance a body.

Organisations such as American Dance Therapy Association and Association of the Dance movement therapy, UK have been maintaining professionally the education throughout the field. The therapy is a treatment towards anxiety, depression and severe stress processes through four kinds of stages such as preparation, incubation, illumination & evaluation. Developmental movement therapy can be useful for people of all ages and may also help people recover from strokes and brain injury, even in extreme cases.

Though the associations mentioned about the benefits from diseases such as dementia, depression, anxiety, learning disabilities, cancer, schizophrenia etc. there are also critical review of ‘unproven’ dance therapy has been marked.

Healing is always an urge for everybody to keep balance of our bodily problems and nuisance. We carry our healthy life depend upon doctors, physiotherapists, yoga, astrologers and many. Can we go to the dancers to heal ourselves?

Let’s surrender to the dancers as real healers on this World Dance Day!

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