ANCIENT EGYPTIAN DANCES BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT

Document Type : Original Article

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Curator, Grand Egyptian Museum

Abstract

The research aims to introduce the relation between the ancient Egyptian dances and movements, which recoded in life performance to be registered in tombs and temples inscriptions and the modern dances. The Dance for the ancient Egyptians was like life soul and the joy source, through help those doing physical movements with music rhythm inspiration them and change their mode into better condition. The Dance in ancient Egypt were vary between the funeral dances, dance for deities’ satisfaction and dances for cure, all these dances’ types were beside the main dance purpose for enjoyment and feeling happiness was well known in ancient Egypt. These Ancient Egyptian dances movements, which well-known from prehistory periods in Egypt as offering for satisfy the deities, developed through centuries and become the icon of the dances, which most of modern civilization derived from it the dance arts movements and the way of making dances like (Ballet dances, Flamenco dances …etc.).
        Through this research paper will highlight the importance of riving the ancient Egyptian dances and the impact of this reviving into the local and international society from introduce the community reaction for some case studies like the Mummy Prada and the Festivals Road opining event in Luxor to know the community reaction for using this dance through another public events as reviving for one of the ancient Egyptian intangible heritage elements.

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