The heritage of the Emirati coast in the «Sharjah Heritage Days»

"The Nubans" .. dancing mountain bells and singing waves

The Nuban dance during the "18th Sharjah Heritage Days".

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With opposite rows of men and women, the Nuban Folklore Band performs its gentle wagging dances, then interspersed with moments when the dance wakes up at a faster pace, returning to slow down, in an indisputable feature of the dialogue between men and women.

Due to the flow of the collective spirit and the influence of the enthusiasm that the rhythms broadcast, the band can win the admiration of the audience, and it can also repeat and break the rhythm during the sudden moments when the steps of the dancers and dancers speed up, in a scene that embodies the magic of folk art, and its ability to transmit an energy of joy that is enough for the members of the band and the audience together.

The band is led by Taher Ismail Ali Abdullah, who also sings, and plays the tanbura instrument, which differs from the sesame instrument in its large size, thick strings and sound, to transform with their performance of Nubian art the heart of Sharjah into a multi-colored painting.

Singing in the art of Nuban has a coastal flavor, which makes the listener imagine boats arriving and departing ones. It is a singing for those coming and going with voices that can be easily distinguished by the pentagonal ladder in their performance, reinforced by the rhythms of the three drums accompanied by what is known as “Al-Manjur” or “Shakhalila”, which consists of a large number One of the goats' hooves fastened in a wide belt can only be described as "mountain bells", where a member of the band ties this instrument around his waist like a skirt, then moves at a specific rhythm, suitable for singing and striking the drums, to make the sound of the feet hitting each other by dancing.

Just as the rhythm of the Nuban dance rises to seem fast, the mangur holder also moves at a faster and higher rhythm, to maintain its consistency with the rhythm of the drums, before returning to a constant degree of vibration.

By contemplating the atmosphere around which the Nubian singing and its distinctive color revolve, the observer notes that it embodies the clearest example of the openness of the cities of the Emirates and their participation with coastal cities in general in absorbing and receiving folk arts like waves, as Nuban art appears as a type of art that moves within geography, and takes coastal cities as an environment for praise And the spinning that she sends out the lyrics of her songs, so she sends it the emotion mixed with human intimacy.

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