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Understanding Rituals and Movement

A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects performed in a specific manner, often dictated by community traditions. Rituals serve various purposes, including warding off fears or attracting desired outcomes, and can be both religious and non-religious in nature. Examples include rain dances and communal chants that utilize movement and voice to create a shared experience.

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Understanding Rituals and Movement

A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects performed in a specific manner, often dictated by community traditions. Rituals serve various purposes, including warding off fears or attracting desired outcomes, and can be both religious and non-religious in nature. Examples include rain dances and communal chants that utilize movement and voice to create a shared experience.

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MOVEMENT & RITUALS

What is a RITUAL?
🠶 A “Ritual” is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects,
performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence
and movements.
🠶 Rituals may be prescribed by the traditions of a community, including a
religious community. Rituals are characterized by formalism,
traditionalism, invariance, rule-governance, sacral symbolism and
performance
🠶 Many other activities and events that are non-religious serve as rituals
whether it be for tradition, common curtesy, society expectations, etc.
🠶 Let’s think of some examples:
Rituals & Magic!
🠶 Let’s think about how Rituals and Magic inter-relate:
🠶 Can you list some things that early humans might have
feared, and that they might have created rituals to ward
off?
🠶
🠶 Can you list some things that early humans might have
needed or desired, and that they might have created
rituals to attract?
🠶
🠶 Why was the Shaman or magic person so often a figure
of great respect in early tribal cultures?
🠶
Rituals serving Purpose
🠶 Rituals, for whatever reason, served a pupose.
🠶 Early people may have had rituals intended to ward off evil spirits or to
placate the dead, but they probably also had rituals intended to achieve
quite specific physical goals--success in a particular hunt or battle, for
example.
🠶 Another example is a rain dance. This was intended to cause the specific
result of rain.
🠶 Using your body for Movement and your Voice, try and create a Ritual
trying to call upon the Rain, using the Poem provided on the next slide:
Rain
By: Sonja Dunn

Listen listen
Listen to the rain
Listen listen
Listen to the rain

Softer softer
Listen to the rain
Softer softer
Listen to the rain
Listen listen listen listen
Listen to the rain

Louder louder
Listen to the rain
Louder louder
Listen to the rain
Listen listenlistenlisten
Listen to the rain

Slower & faster


SOME OTHER EXAMPLES TO PLAY WITH:
🠶 Boom Chicka Boom Give Me the Beat
🠶 By Yvette Holt
Boom Chicka Boom
🠶 Boom Chicka Boom
Leader taps knees in steady beat. Everyone
🠶 I said a Boom Chicka Boom
joins, tapping knees in steady beat.
🠶 I said a Boom Chicka Boom
🠶 I said a Boom Leader chants:
ChickaRackaChickaRackaChicka
Boom Give me the beat, beat, beat.
🠶 I said a Boom Give me the beat, beat, beat.
ChickaRackaChickaRackaChicka Give me the beat, give me the beat
Boom Give me the beat, beat, beat.
🠶 Uh huh
🠶 Uh huh Everyone repeats chant.
🠶 Oh yeah
🠶 Oh yeah Change motion to clapping hands. Everyone
🠶 One more time chants:
Clap your hands, hands, hands.
🠶 One more time
Clap your hands, hands, hands.
Clap your hands, clap your hands.

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