History is made at night

The politics of dancing and musicking and other dark matters

Showing posts with label Native Americans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native Americans. Show all posts
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Idle No More: Round Dance Revolution

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The Idle No More movement for indigenous rights started out in Canada last year, and has been marked by protests across the country and sim...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Moving Gallery - The Mysterium

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Moving Gallery - The Mysterium was an event held at Trinity College of Music in Greenwich last month (19th February) as part of In the Momen...
Friday, August 08, 2008

Powwow - the Dream Dance

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An account of the Powwow ceremony- also known as the Dream Dance or Drum Dance - which spread amongst Native Americans from the 1870s. It ap...
Sunday, February 24, 2008

Trance Dancing

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I originally wrote this article for ‘Head’ magazine where it was published in issue no.10, ‘Altered States’, 2000. After more than ten years...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008

Ghost Dance

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‘All Indians must dance, everywhere, keep on dancing. Pretty soon in next spring Great Spirit come… All dead Indians come back and live aga...
Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Comanche Sun Dance

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In desparate times, millennarian movements have arisen in which people hoped to be liberated from their oppression by a sudden magical trans...
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