Dinka Dance - South Sudan #7
by Gloria Ssali
Title
Dinka Dance - South Sudan #7
Artist
Gloria Ssali
Medium
Drawing - Drawing
Description
Song and dance play an important role in Dinka culture. A set of drums is found in every Dinka settlement. Artistic expression is associated with cattle, which they often imitate in songs and dances. There are also battle songs, songs of initiation, and songs celebrating the tribe's ancestors.
Following is a typical Dinka song:
O Creator
Creator who created me in my mother's womb
Do not confront me with a bad thing
Show me the place of cattle,
So that I may grow my crops
And keep my herd
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April 20th, 2013
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Gloria Ssali
thank you Karen ...visual closure is new for me too ...thank you very much very much a great way to view art!!!
Karen Adams
Lovely work again, Gloria.....takes me back to art classes and the concept of visual closure . . wonder if they call it that there.....how the viewer's brain completes the image even though not all of the lines are there...very nice fav/v8
Judy Via-Wolff
this makes me want to dance like that... to feel young, free, enegetic and happy...fv vote
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