First, I would like to try and keep this blog up and running to tell everyone about SCA events and such (cost, directions, etc).
Second, I have four dances from the SCA I am willing to teach if someone would like to request a night we can meet up in a lobby. They are really fun... I would love to actually get to do them here.
Alright... I have to think of one thing I have learned about in this course about another culture... Just one thing... It was very interesting how... the Aboriginal people do not really wear clothes. They do paint on patterns that could be clothes... maybe. In several pictures they wear a loin cloth for us. They wear mostly paint though.
Now... I must talk about something I learned about my own culture... Well, I was glad to find out that music is still important to our society. I know, that seems pretty silly with me being a vocalist... but I worry alot about if what I want to do in life is actually important enough for me to be able to make a living. I looked down on my own culture for a while because I felt like they had left music and dance behind years ago. It felt like I was born in the wrong era. I feel a little less nervous now. I got a good slap in the face from all the evidence that music is still very important to our own culture.
Finally, something I am curious about... I think I will continue to research how dance and music tie together (other than the obvious dancing to music). After the session on Japan, I have also gotten a taste of those lovely little plays. I will definately have to look in on those plays. I did not really find them funny, but then again... I am horribly respectful to an almost fault sometimes. I know that they are not supposed to show alot of emotion and that is part of the reason it looks so funny; another thing is I know how hard it is to translate so... silly translations maybe funny, but I just cannot laugh at them.
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I completely agree with you about the Japanese plays not being amusing. In a way, they were amusing and I did even laugh, (I usually laugh if people around me are laughing, even if I try not to, so that does not say much) but then I suppose I started thinking about the story more and no matter how unrealistic and silly the translations may have been, someone slaughtering everyone on sight with no concept of his actions is not funny. So then I went from one extreme to the other and cried. I wonder how the Japanese people react to such a play.
ReplyDeleteI love the Japanese puppetry as well and really wish I still had my video at home to show you. We taped it off of PBS one day and it was absolutely phenomenal. And the artform itself is ridiculously beautiful to me! Of course, you already probably know that: I may have mentioned it in class. . . Who knows?
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