Mayan Dance
The dancers in Mayan culture were known as Humul dancers.
In Mayan culture dancer’s have a purpose which is to tell stories.
They have been used to teach by the Aztecs, The Mixtec and the Zapotec when they perform. A story is told by the movement of the dances they perform. The dancers may go on for hours depending on the length of the story. The racks worn on the back of the dancers are made of lightweight materials like feathers and bamboo. Most of the forms found on the backrack are symbols acquired over the years
Each dancer has a back rack
Since the dance is a universal tale, the dancers appear all around the vase surface, as if they are dancing in the sky that encircles the world.
In Mayan culture dancer’s have a purpose which is to tell stories.
They have been used to teach by the Aztecs, The Mixtec and the Zapotec when they perform. A story is told by the movement of the dances they perform. The dancers may go on for hours depending on the length of the story. The racks worn on the back of the dancers are made of lightweight materials like feathers and bamboo. Most of the forms found on the backrack are symbols acquired over the years
Each dancer has a back rack
Since the dance is a universal tale, the dancers appear all around the vase surface, as if they are dancing in the sky that encircles the world.
Mayan Music
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The Mayan civilizations of South and Central America have a rich musical culture.
Flutes, including panpipes and whistles were most important. Many examples are in museums around the world. Rattles, scraper and drums were also used.There is no evidence of stringed instruments at all! A whistle flute, sometimes called a fipple flute is a flute blown from the end.Air is sent through a simple mouthpiece against the sharp edge of a hole cut in the pipe below the mouthpiece.It can be made of clay, wood cane. Finger holes make more than one pitch possible. Whistle flutes were common. One example shows a flute made from bird bones. Clay flutes also survive. Ocarinas are flutes in the shapes of animals.The word ocarina comes from the Spanish, who settled in the Central American country of Costa Rica, rich in rain forest animals.The ancient inhabitants of Costa Rica crafted ocarinas that represented birds, armadillos, owls, bats tapirs, monkeys, and other rain forest creatures.Today modern Latin American artists make ocarinas inspired by the ancient ones. The instruments are played by blowing in the small hole at the end, covering with your fingers the four holes on the body, and leaving the large hole at the end uncovered. When fingers are lifted off any of the four holes on the body , varying sounds are created. The sounds made are similar to the calls of Costa Rican birds. |
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