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Maculele, a stick fighting dance from Santo Amaro, was introduced to a wider audience by Viva Bahia, a capoeira theater group founded in 1963. [1] Viva Bahia's founder, Emília Biancardi, had researched Bahian folklore for many years and integrated maculele into her group's performances.
The Old Plantation, a watercolour painting from the 1780s, showing a slave performing a stick dance on a South Carolina plantation.. Stick dance was a dance style that African–Americans developed on American plantations during the slavery era, where dancing was used to practice "military drills" among the slaves, where the stick used in the dance was in fact a disguised weapon.
Maculele, Maculelê or Makulele may refer to: Makuleke, Makulele Area, Makuleke Region, or Pafuri Triangle of the Kruger National Park; Makulele (people), Makuleke, people living in Pafuri Triangle; Maculelê (dance), an Afro-Brazilian dance and martial art
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Stick dance may refer to: Stick dance (African-American), a dance developed by American slaves; Emirati stick dance, a traditional group dance of United Arab Emirates and Oman; Ball de bastons, a European ritual dance; Dandiya Raas, a dance of Gujarat origin; Jocul cu bâtă, a Romanian folk dance; Laathi nach, also known as the Tharu stick dance
He wants to frighten the enemy by his dance beforehand.” The broad range of weapon dances includes the hota jumping dance of Amharic males; the attack dance of the Hailefo; the stick-dance of the Kullo; the Beroronsi Hama Haban, a dramatic dagger dance of the Esa; and the shire, the saber dance of the Tigrean nomadic shepherds. [21]
The Yapese stick dance is performed by men, women and children together, while standing dances are performed either by women or men and boys, but never both together. The men participate in various dancing competitions, which are segregated by caste ; the lower castes have some distinct dances, such as a woman's standing dance, but can only ...