What is the Ahwash dance? What do they call them from mere movements to surprise and dazzle to the other? How does maestro manage to transform the band through creative patterns into aesthetic art images? In other words, how can he convey to us a painting that reflects a unique human experience?
What are the Ahwash ?
Ahwash is not just a normal dance, it is another face of life motivated by creativity, poetry and meditation on beauty itself, it is a vivid image that reflects the interaction of amazigh man with his natural and human surroundings in an interaction that clearly reveals concerns, hopes, feelings, reflections and abstract images in fiction and transforms them through creative patterns into aesthetic artistic images.
It is that collective framework, in which the community exercises its intellectual and emotional life, in the midst of cultural artistic customs and traditions. If we want a dance concert and a meeting that supports the bonds of understanding and bonds of affection and synergy, in a common collective way, a social school that teaches values, order, cooperation and the development of people's social awareness of their rights and duties towards society, towards each other, as well as raising taste, and raising a sense of beauty and ugliness in behavior and transactions, through the issues and ideas of poets in a collective way that grows about the legacy of practicing everyday traditions.
The term "collective dance", regardless of its weights, forms, rhythms and movements in southern Morocco, is a term given to all types of group dance, particularly in the regions of the Great and Small Atlas, where the Amazigh tribes speaking the Tashlheit dialect are endemic. It means: meeting the inhabitants of the roundabout or the tribe in a place called locally called "Asais", "Assir" or "Asarak", to perform an artistic evening in singing, dancing and group singing, a public singing and dance party open to anas himself the ability to participate in the word, tone, rhythm or movement.
Men's and singles dance ies
A group dance performed by a group of people in an unlimited number, including women, is required to be single, with married women excluded while the same requirement does not apply to men.
The large number of participants in the dance and their smallness is subject to two main factors: the factor of the place that is asyes, whenever the discotheque is large and large, and accommodates the largest number of dancers, the turnout of the willing is high, the number of participants is high, and secondly the factor of time, which is the occasion and its circumstances, with the circumstances that affect the climatic data in the presence of the audience and its turnout to dance, the participants are transported accordingly or more.
The "Ahwash" dance is held on various occasions by villagers and tribes, such as religious and national holidays, but remains in particular an expression of the collective joy that coincides with and characterizes the agricultural life cycle.
The "Ahwash" dance is only upright with elements that are fully understood in the tradition and the convention of the public: the poet, the dancers, the signatories, the audience, the presenter. The poet requires memory to preserve poetry, speed of intuition and social acceptance, but the dancers in the oaash are the ones who make up the bright painting, the beautiful prominent face, and the general view of dance is the subject of attention, the attention and admiration of the viewers, and the dancers must line up and discipline in the position and movement, and before this and that practice and experience in various types of movements, with the quality of performance, and the science of melodies and weights, which is the material of singing and singing in dance
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.
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