Friday 24 June 2011

Limpid JAMAICA But not so during a celebration

When I was seeing the match between India and West Indies some important landscapes were shown  between the drinks break and commentators spoke rich about Jamaica culture , dance , etc.the very next incident that came to my mind was the Chris Gayle celebration dance after scoring a century against Kings XI Punjab . I became very curious about what is that much special in Jamaica's dance , I do agree they have a peculiar and a unique dace steps . Then as i learnt about their culture , I came to know that dance has always been important to Jamaica . They even have a separate style or to say that to distinguish dace steps , they broadly have a classification of Social Dance and Spiritual Dance . The former includes work and games and regular dances and the later integrates parts of worship 
ceremonies . And they have devoted nearly ten varieties of dances types namely 
1 .Quadrille 
2 . Kumina
3 . Maypole 
4 . Jonkunnu 
5 . Gerrech
6 . Bruckin' party
7 . Ring games
8 .  Revival 
9 . Tambu
10. Ettu
Each are different from each other and are danced to different situations . Like we have savumalum dance after death here they have Gerrech dance . And infact they also have some styles according to music too , some famous music around Jamaica are Raggae and Dancehall . So now I was able to comprehend how Chris Gayle was able to put up such a neat show . For those who missed Gayle's movements here are a few pics


Courtesy : http://www.my-island-jamaica.com/traditional_jamaican_dances_list.html

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