Dance Paintings from the Heritage of Indigenous North American Folk Art

Expo .. "Thanksgiving Day"... with the rhythm of "Red Indians"

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Yesterday, the United States of America pavilion celebrated Thanksgiving, with dances from the folk art heritage of the American Indians, the indigenous people of North America, in Al Wasl Square, in the presence of a number of Expo visitors.

The date of Thanksgiving is associated with the harvest season in ancient times in both America and Europe, and it is a national holiday in the United States set to coincide with the last Thursday of November.

The celebration included the revival of some of the traditional dances known in the heritage of the American Indians, some of which are performed by women only, such as the “chicken dance”, and a military band performed and danced with the flavor of the American Indians in terms of dress and the method of “drum and dance”.

The ancient Americans, Native Americans, American Indians, or American Indians, are the original inhabitants of the Americas, before the era of Christopher Columbus, while it is believed that they were called American Indians;

Because Columbus mistakenly thought he was in India when he discovered America.

The band's artists presented their performances based on circular dance, which is a form of storytelling, and in the colorful, embellished and feathered costumes that characterize this type of Indian-American traditional art, to the rhythms of "flute" music.

Nino Rios, a registered member of the "Pueblo Tribe" and a nominee for a Native American Music Award, spoke with the audience about the meaning behind each dance performed during the show, as most of the paintings presented were related to cultural dances, including the "Healing Dance". The Chicken Dance, the Luxurious Dance, and other distinctive dances.

Rios said the "luxury dance" category was introduced in the 1960s as a new female dance, in which a solo dancer would perform what he described as a "fashion dance", with exquisite footwork to match.

He also said that all the dances, which were performed, are associated with dreams conceivable by the ancestors of the aborigines, even their great-grandfathers, and that all the members of the troupe and the performances presented, have the utmost respect, not only for their fellow human beings, but also for all kinds of animal and plant life.

Rios himself performed the “eagle dance,” and the tribesman described the feathers of these majestic birds as “very sacred,” and said, “They sent us a message from the top of the earth,” and stressed that “Expo” is a new opportunity to live and go out to enjoy, and to make new friends.