The basic steps of the Potlatch Dance are as follows:
1, first, the music of the Potlatch Dance When the Potlatch Dance repented, generally men and women in a row of half of the Bibi Lina round hands in a circle.
2. Secondly, there is one person who will lead the dance, ask and answer questions from both men and women, and sing in pairs over and over again, without musical accompaniment.
3. Thirdly, the whole dance consists of two sections which are slow and then fast, with the basic disturbing movements such as the "Yo-Freak Cross Legs", "Tend Steps and Tosses", and "Cross Legs and Treads Squatting", etc.
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4, fourth, the dancers arm to tease, fling, shaking the main change in dance posture, the formation according to the clockwise march, the circle is big and small.
The origin and significance of the Tibetan Pot Dance.
The pot Zhuang dance, also known as the "fruit Zhuo", "song Zhuang", "Zhuo", etc., the Tibetan language means circle dance is one of the three major folk dances of the Tibetan people, distributed in Tibet, Chamdo, Nagqu, Sichuan Aba, Ganzi, Yunnan Diqing and Qinghai, Gansu, the Tibetan settlement area.
"How many stars in the sky, Zhuo will have how many tunes; how many trees on the mountain, Zhuo will have how many words. The yak body has how many Bili Na hair, Zhuo will have how many dance". This disturbance is people's praise for the rich content of the potshuang dance. Wabzhuang Dance is actually a kind of joyful dance, so whenever there is a joyful festival, people will repent regardless of their age. People regardless of the old and the young regret no joyful dance. Such as moving to a new house, wedding ceremony, the Spring Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, men and women of all ages to jump all night.
The pot is divided into for large-scale religious rituals "big pot", for folk traditional festivals "in the pot" and for friends and family gatherings "small pot" and so on. There are several types of "large pots", "medium pots" for traditional folk festivals, and "small pots" for gatherings of friends and relatives, each with a different scale and function. There are also differentiated into "mass pots" and "lama pots", town pots and agricultural and pastoral areas pots.
Dance, the general men and women in a semicircle in a circle, with one person in the lead, divided into men and women a question and answer, repeated singing, no musical accompaniment. The whole dance consists of two sections of slow and then fast, with basic movements such as "Yuhua cross-legged", "tend to step over and over" and "cross-legged step squatting", etc. The dancers' arms are mainly changed by teasing, flinging and shaking. The dancers' arms are mainly lifting, flinging and shaking to change the dance posture, and the team is marching clockwise, with big and small circles, occasionally changing the pattern of "dragon swinging its tail".