Hex
Associations---modern Darkness Lively Trance
Tapes Found On---Camp 93
Origin---modern
Choreographer---June Watts (Shaker)
Song Name---Sami music
Notes
June Watts (in The Great Circle) says of this dance ìI heard
the amazing music and instantly my body moved to it, I just knew how to
dance this music - I'd always known! The dance came through a dreamlike
consciousness, as if I'd had a brain by-pass.
A year or so later I was told the movements are the same or
similar to the dances of the Inuit and Sami shamans (the singer, Mari Boine
Persen, is Sami, from North Scandinavia). ì
Shaker later choreographed the Inner Circle, unknowingly in the
same manner, the body moving from within to the music.
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While the outer circle seemed to me to be an actual act of hex,
of casting out, the inner circle seems to me to be the more
male active part, a shamanic dance of purgation with both
body and voice.
------Shaker
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