Ganawa Music

 

Robes, language and dagger for the completion of the painting

Besides the straightness of the row, and the order of the gloves with the practice of the types of movements and lightness, the dress unit is necessary, where participants in the showers wear the costumes of parties and special holidays of the tribe, men wear national robes, shirt (chamer), prince and white turban and take on silver dagger, and "close" (leather wallet trimmed with silk) while women are decorated with traditional ornaments, usually consisting of spun art pieces and loban pellets.

Maestro's flags are "ahuash."

He heads the dance group, the most knowledgeable and experienced of dance, and is known for his inherited art, called "flags": the leader of the movements, he is the leader of the group, from which the necessary signals are issued during the dance by drawing the performance of movements in accuracy, attention, speed and taste. It requires knowledge of weights, melodies and halls, and a culture and a delicate musical ear, in which he can distinguish between melodies, weights and similar and complex rhythms, as well as an expert in movements and their arts, which people inherited from or created, knowing rhythmic and tonal temporal measurements, agility and control of body balance.

In the dance group, "Alam" plays an important leading role, he is responsible for the dance of the unity of movement and its rhythmic consistency with the chant, monitors the control in its performance, and discipline in the lieutenant of the class, he is the leader of collective creativity depended on him in the selection of movements and the order of their performance and quality, with his good taste, intelligence and artistic, and the length of his practical experience in discotheques, in order to give an integrated painting.

The final word for the public

The public is an essential element in enriching its literary, artistic and social content, as it has an effective effect in arousing the enthusiasm of poets, dancers and signatories, and in fostering a spirit of competition in creativity, both in the poetic dialogue between poets, in the field of dance and collective movements, or in the world of rhythm, and this spirit, which applies to participants in the ahos of all its elements, was caused by the public, its critical opinion and its automatic encouragement.

In the area of the Ahuash dance, there is a tradition presented by a significant significance, namely, that the artistic and cultural appearance in the tribe's community is worthy of care and organization, and its task is to organize and guide the dance group and, during the evening, to inspect the public by volunteer assistants from the village youth throughout the evening, to urge listening and calm, and to encourage individual and creative abilities, in various available ways.

The Ahuash dance, rooted in the depth of historical and cultural heritage, is the model of fine art, proper artistic expression and conscious framing of man in his constant interaction with himself and his outer surroundings. 

 

 Its historical origins

The sources said that the Kanawa was "an ethnic group in Morocco that came from the descendants of the "slaves" who were brought in in the golden age of the Moroccan Empire (late 16th century) from Western Black Africa, then called the "Western Sudan" or the "Empire of Ghana" (the present-day state of Mali in particular). She adds that the designation "Kanawa" is a distortion of the original name of "Kenya", "Guinea", or "Guinea slaves" as they were called, before their full integration into Moroccan society.

Essaouira is home to the spiritual city of the Quay within Morocco. Since the 17th century, the city's seaport has been an important commercial hub on the Atlantic coast and a trading point with Timbuktu, the then capital of black Muslim Africa. From there, the "slaves" fled with gold to Morocco. The mausoleum of Sidi Bilal in western Essaouira is the supreme reference and the place of the spiritual father of 69. Inside the mausoleum of this guardian is the corner, which on the 20th of Shaaban embraces the annual season of the Kanawi community on the rhythm of that music.

 Attraction

"Kings" is the stage of attraction. These are accompanied by a noisy rhythm resulting from "al-Qaqar" and "hybrid" with "spraying" (applause). Here, some of the people who want to lose consciousness, hit themselves with sharp objects or walk over glass fragments. This means that the "attractive" - or "attractive" - has reached the utmost harmony and integration with rhythm and color and thus entered into a world other than our tangible world.

The Canary Night is usually used for hospital purposes or a religious ceremony. The attractions are most in the "Qandisha Living Place", which rids the soul and body of their evils and diseases. It is, the sources say, "based on a system in the form of a full ritual whose primary task is to turn the number into rhythm, rhythm into color and color into king and king into name and name to body and body into dance writing."

Strange effect and medical fatwa

It is said that the accent has a strange effect on anyone who dances to its impact. Dancing becomes , involuntarily, more convulsive and rapid, and may end up fainting or falling to the ground without fainting or even unconsciously beating the dancer's body.

These effects may seem alarming to those who witness them for the first time. But for Moroccans, it is so normal that there is an alert to catch those who have the "condition" in order to prevent it from falling, but under no form does it prevent it from completing the dance.

As this is a common condition, Moroccan doctors tried to provide a satisfactory answer to it and linked it to epilepsy. This is an explanation that has not been accepted by Moroccans, especially since the majority of people do not suffer from epilepsy and have never shown symptoms before. The symptoms that doctors likened to epilepsy only appear when the song is broadcast, so the simple popular explanation for it is that it is the jinn and spirits behind this phenomenon.