The Bagishu people in Uganda are a group of Bantu speaking people in Africa. They live on the slopes of Mt Elgon in Eastern Uganda bordering Kenya. They are agriculturalist mainly and their main cash crop is coffee.Although much of their traditional beliefs have changed, their love for circumcision has not changed since time immemorial.

On this article we will give you detailed information about the origin of circumcision among Bagishu men and how the whole practice is performed.The actual origin of this practice is mysterious even among the Bagishu themselves.One tradition states that it originated from the demand by the Barwa (Kalenjin) when Masaba, the Bagishu hero ancestor, wanted to marry a Kalenjin girl.

Another tradition claims that the first person to be circumcised had a complication with his sexual organ and the circumcision started as a surgical operation to save the man’s life.There is also a story that the first person to be circumcised had as a punishment for seducing other people’s wives.

Legend has it that it was decided to castrate him by a way of circumcision. When he recovered, he resumed his former practices and rumour went around that he was excellent at it.In order to compete favourably, other men decide to circumcise also.The Bagishu are a highly superstitious people. Before circumcision, and initiate is administered with herbs called ityanyi.

Its purpose is to arouse interest on circumcision within the candidate.Often, itenyi is tied round the initiate’s big toe or it is put in such a place where he might jump over it unawares. It is believed that if a candidate who has taken itenyi is delayed, or hindered from being circumcised, he might end up circumcising himself as his mind is said to be so much stimulated towards circumcision that no other thing can distract him.

Circumcision among the Bagishu occurs bi-annually during leap years. Every male has to perform the ritual upon reaching puberty.Those who abscond are hunted down and forcefully and scornfully circumcised.

Before the day of circumcision, the initiates are tuned up by having them walk and dance around villages for three days. Their relatives dance with them and there is much drumming and singing.Girls, especially the sisters of the initiates, enthusiastically take parting the processions.It is believed that once a boy is circumcised he becomes a true Mugishu and a mature person.An uncircumcised one is called a MusaniOn the day of circumcision, the initiates are assembled together in a semi-circle. The operation on each initiate is pretty fast.

The circumciser and his assistant move around performing the ritual as appropriate. The assistant circumciser pulls the fore skin off the penis and the circumciser cuts off.The circumciser goes further and cuts from the penis another layer which is believed to develop into another top cover for the penis if it is not removed.

The circumciser proceeds and cuts off a certain muscle on the lower part of the pennies. These cuttings end the circumcision ritual.After circumcision, the initiate is made to sit down on a stool and he is then wrapped in a piece of cloth. After that he is taken to his father’s house and made to move around the house before entering it.

For three days, the initiate is not allowed to eat with his hands. He is fed. They say that it is because he is not yet fully initiated into manhood.After three days, the circumciser is invited to perform the ritual of washing the initiate’s hands. It is after this ritual that the initiate can eat with his hands.

On the same day, the initiate is declared a man. It is then that the custom allows him to marry.During the ceremony, the initiate is instructed on the duties and demands of man hood. He is informed in addition that agriculture is very important and advised to always behave like a man.It is believed that the healing of the cuts depends on how many goats have been slaughtered during the circumcision. After healing, a ritual is performed. All the new initiates in the locality have to attend. This ritual is called Iremba.It is an important ceremony which all village people these days even government officials attend.

During ritual proceedings, the initiate could pick any girl and have sexual intercourse with her, the girl was not supposed to refuse. It is believed that if a girl refused, she would never have children when she got married.Previously, circumcision was done in specific enclosures and only the initiates and the circumcisers were allowed in. The rest of the congregation would just wait and listen from the outside enclosure. Today, however, all people are allowed to watch the whole process. Firmness and courageous endures on the part of the initiate is appreciated as a sign of bravery.

Twinomugisha Charles
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If you are planning a vacation in the wonderful Spanish city of Malaga, you will find that there is plenty to entertain you throughout your time in this area. This Malaga city overview will provide you with an array of information relating to the history, culture, sights, attractions, and entertainment on offer in this destination, as well as some more general information about Malaga. Popular with tourists from Europe, this city is located in a popular part of Spain, and is the ideal place for a holiday if you enjoy great weather, natural beauty, a vibrant atmosphere, and plenty to see and do. You will find it easy to travel around this city, which means that you can make the most of your time here, and you can look forward to enjoying all that beautiful Malaga has to offer. The capital city of the Costa Del Sol, Malaga has plenty to offer to its visitors, and when you come to this destination you can look forward to an enriching and exciting vacation experience in a destination that is rich in history and culture as well as adorned with natural beauty and fabulous scenery.

Malaga city guide – what to see and do
When you visit Malaga you will find so much to see and do that you will never be bored or short on entertainment. You will find everything you need within easy reach, from recreational facilities and wonderful places to relax to historical sites, cultural events and festivities, natural beauty, vibrant nightlife, excellent shopping facilities, and more. The birthplace of the famous artist, Pablo Picasso, visitors can enjoy exploring his old house, which has become a very popular attraction amongst tourists. You can also enjoy delving into the past and learning more about the area’s roots and origins with a visit to the historic quarter. The city is host to a range of events and festivities over the course of the year, and this includes Holy Week and the Summer Fair. Pay a visit to the famous but incomplete cathedral, the Moorish castle, and the fortress, and take in the beautiful gardens in the area.

Malaga city guide – a city for old and young alike
In addition to the historical sites and attractions, the natural wonders and recreational areas, and the cultural events and festivities that take place in Malaga, you will find some fabulous nightlife on offer, from bars and clubs to restaurants, live entertainment, and more. Whether you want to relax and enjoy a drink and a tasty meal or whether you want to dance into the early hours you can continue to enjoy this city even when the sun goes down. If you are something of a die-hard shopper you will be thrilled with the great range of shopping opportunities available here, from world class shopping facilities to unique shops and boutiques selling an array of unusual and unique gifts and souvenirs. No matter what your age, Malaga is a city that has something to suit everyone when it comes to fun, adventure, entertainment, and sights, so you can look forward to a really wonderful and memorable vacation experience.

Jack Blacksmith
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I have many a crazy friend. Some would say that I was the craziest of them all. It does not matter. Some of them I know through dancing, some of them I don’t. You want to know something crazy? Whether they’re my friends that dance for a living or my friends who can’t dance at all, they both have a fear of dancing. It seems that this crazy fear is something a lot of people have in common.

They even have a name for it now. Yes there’s a name for practically every condition out there, even people who need to switch the lights on and off seventy times while humming every note of ‘We Will Rock You’ on every off switch before they leave a room! If every one of these conditions is accurate, every single one of us on this planet is crazy and has at least a hundred different conditions. And you guessed it, there’s a frightening name for the fear of dancing, it’s called…chorophobia.

Now I don’t know about you and your friends, but I’m in no rush to send mine to the doctor’s yet…at least not for this reason! I typed in ‘fear of dancing’ into Google the other day and lo and behold, there were 2, 240, 000 websites that mention this. That’s a lot of chorophobiacs! There are hypnotherapists offering services to cure this, it is actually something that affects people’s lives.

Well let me tell you, I’ve been through this journey from start to finish. From sitting in the most comfortable chair in the world in every single room I graced where people were dancing…to being totally comfortable just dancing out of the blue on any London street. I have a dancer friend who also does gymnastics, who has no problem doing a back flip in the middle of his walking and then start dancing as if it’s as easy as 1-2-3, all while people are walking towards him from the opposite direction (credit to Scotty P Maurice).

So what’s the story? How do you get rid of the fear? Well there are basically two ways:

1. Just dance as best as you can and have fun, irrespective of what other people think and whether you look good or not.

2. learn to dance well, and then as you build competence, your confidence will grow.

Two paths to the same destination. Of course if you choose number 2, number 1 will start to follow and you won’t care what other people think if you know you’re good!

You’ve all seen the first type, they’re dancing, you’re wondering what the hell they’re doing but they seem to be having fun and that’s all that matters. I’m sure you’ve also seen the second type, those really good dancers and thought to yourself, “Well duh, if I could dance like that, I wouldn’t be scared at all.”

Well you want to know something? A lot of those really good dancers are actually deep down scared as well. Time and time again I have seen extremely talented dancers, get ultra nervous and worried right before an audition or performance. They start doubting themselves and become blind to their own capabilities, convincing themselves they can’t remember dance choreographies and routines. And I’m talking about dancers most people would die to be as good as!

When I saw this happening, that’s when it struck me – it’s just a biology thing. It’s your body’s fight or flight response where you suddenly get that rush of adrenaline shoot up your body, jolting into every one of your nerves and making your knees become weak at the prospect of what’s to come. It could be damn good…or it could be damn nothing. And at those last moments what’s more real to you is how you could turn into nothing, the lowest of the low, the bottom of the pit and everything that could go wrong.

It could take a huge paradigm shift, a whole new shift in the way you look at life in general to erase your fear by the first method I mentioned above. In fact for some people they never achieve this shift. Carly Simon is an extremely talented musician who is known to suffer from stage fright (she used to have her bottom spanked because the physical pain helped rid her of the stage fright). If she did not have the competence or desire, she would probably have never got on stage.

But if you choose the second route (i.e. to build competence instead) it is a much more gradual experience where you desensitize yourself to the whole notion of dancing. When you have a problem, it’s usually a good idea to actually put yourself in a situation where you’ll be forced to deal with that situation and become used to it (rather than becoming used to thinking about it and talking yourself out of it).

Once you actually go to a couple of dance classes, it won’t be a big deal any more. Sure, you might still get a little nervous if you are a beginner or not familiar with the style, but you’ll put yourself in there, the fear won’t do nothing to stop you. So go ahead and dance, because there’s always a new chorophobiac just waiting to take your place around the corner (probably sitting in a chair).

Kevin Shwe
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The word belly dance, is a western name for an Arabic style of dancing. In Arabic countries it is simply called oriental dance and some American enthusiasts call it Middle Eastern Dance.

Belly dancing is a form of dance that is not so widely acknowledged in America and other countries, but there is still a large following in the vast ethnic sector. There is a lot of debate in the community as to the exact origin of belly dancing. Some believe it descended from early Egyptian dances, others say it is derived from religious dances and some say it comes from the migration of the Roma people, with Indian origins. No matter where it comes from, the fact remains that it is an exquisite form of dance and its popularity and following grows every year.

Belly dancing is a great way to increase fitness. It is a very active and energetic style of dance, which elevates the heart rate and increases cardio vascular ability, so one of the many benefits of this form of dance is to elevate fitness level, and burn fat. It also helps to stretch the muscles, and limber the joints up so that the participant becomes more nimble and agile. With these two health related factors, it shows us that it’s a great hobby for those with a few extra years on the clock to keep them young and vital, and also just for the general health of people of all ages.

This style of dance can be tailored to suit anyone’s personal abilities, so that it is not overly strenuous on the cardio vascular system, or on the stretch in the muscles. The fat loss aspect is something that belly dancing has actually been manipulated for. Some fitness experts have used belly dancing in personal training regimes to help a client lose weight effectively. This is possible because it is a fun activity, so the client will be happy to perform a certain amount of belly dancing practice each day to work towards their fitness and weight goals.

Males in belly dancing are not very common however there are some males in this form of dance that are very masterful at the art. Even though they are amazing in their performance, they are sometimes not looked upon with much respect in the belly dancing community, as it was an art created by women, and was not intended for men to perform. This topic is one of much debate with the introduction of women’s rights, why shouldn’t men be able to do the same things women can do, and so on.

All these factors make belly dancing an ideal activity for anyone of any skill level or age. It is both fun and good for physical fitness, so there is a number of positive’s and no negatives. Give it a try!

Dane Stanton
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Bali is the home for unique culture and tradition.
Bali is the home for unique culture and tradition, where here the most magnificent culture and tradition are born and keeping well. Balinese people are very creative person in every thing in their daily life activities. The people know with their talent in art like painting, sculpture, gambelan Instrument, drama, kakawin, dances wayang, and many other that if we explained that lot of thing that we can find about the art in Bali.

Dances are one of them where in Bali there are lots of dances which we can find. Basically dance is created by people who inspirited to the nature and legend of god where their implemented in the form of dance, but some of the sacral dance is created automatically came when they doing the tradition ceremonial like upakara and spontaneity having a trances and dance followed the Gambelan instrumental. Balinese dances can divide in two kind the first one is the dance which including to the sacral dance where this dances are only performance and has religious connection to traditional ceremonial day like in a temple, and the second one is the Wali Dances where this dance is including to the entertainment performance dance which the function to entertainment.

Legong dance.
Legong dance is one of Wali dance which function to performance entertainment, historically this dance is develop in Keraton-keraton in Bali at 19 century the idea of this dance is starting when a prince from Sukawati ubud (gianyar regency) that had the illness hard dream and see two beautiful girls dancing with the graceful accompanied by the beautiful Gambelan. When the prince recovered from the illness, the dreams that he had are set in the repertory dance complete with the gamelan. The legong dance basically is a dance which has complicate structure in body, eyes movement. Legong came from the word “leg” which means the complicate movement from body, foot, hand and eyes. And gong means gambelan so legong is a dance in complicate movement body from the dancer which followed with the instrumental Gambelan which calls Gambelan Semar Pegulingan. At the beginning this dance are dancing with two girl which is had not menstruation yet, virgin and dancing in the yard of Keraton down in the moon light and bring out Kipas (fan) and in the development it had a additional dance which call condong the other structure of this dance are papeson, pangawak, pengecet, dan pakaad.

In beginning of 20 century this dance had lost it popularity because there is new dance creation which made. So there is some effort done to awakenings this dance for the example dug all the ancient documents which typing about the Legong dance, find senior Legong dancer to learn and practice, doing performance in important places such as art center, hotels, villas and even thought to all over the globe word so this dance knowing and survival. Our company offering you some luxary villas and boutiqe hotel for a place while staying in Bali and having long holiday and enjoyed all the Balinese dances including the Legong dance. 

Kinds of legong dance.
There are many kind of legong dance which these dance take some theme which presented in dance here some kind of legong dance:
•    Legong Lasem (Kraton)
•    Legong Jobog
•    Legong Legod Bawa
•    Legong Kuntul
•    Legong Smaradahana
•    Legong Sudarsana
Each of those dance are has the own characteristic like legong lasem it tell about the stories from prabu lasem which kidnap the princess from Daha, legong jobog it tell about the stories from Sugriwa and Subali from Ramayana epos, Legong legod bawa it tell about the stories from competition Dewa Dewa Brahma and Vishnu when searching for the secret commemorative Dewa Syiwa, Legong Kuntul narrate a pair of heron, which occupied sociality, and Legong Sudarsana tok the stories about Calonarang.

pambali
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I guess the best to start out with from easy to harder..

Airwalk, gliding, waving, popping&locking, tutting and then trying integrating it with some c-walk(V, heeltoe, shuffle) maybe some jerk ( variation on reject looks ok)… and if you are getting good do some KRUMPING!.. though depends on where you are a more clean version is usually recommended people don’t want to start thinking you’re about to fight someone!

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Dance is a great form of exercise! Learn the hand, arm, and leg movements of Bollywood and Bhangra dance with this instructional dvd set. Taught by Lopa Sarkar in the beautiful studios of the National Ballet School in Toronto, join the DHA dancers as they take you through the world of modern Indian dance. Lets get dancing!

Volume 1: Seated Upper Body

This dvd has three segments: an upper body stretch; a Bhangra segment in which you will learn different moves that are great for parties; and a Bollywood inspired dance routine. This dvd will suit everyone who has upper body mobility. Whether you use a wheelchair, a walker, a cane, have lower body injuries, are challenged by arthritis, or just want to fully grasp and practice your upper body movements, this dvd is for you!

Volume 2: Full Body

This dvd is comprised of three segments: a full body stretch; a Bhangra segement during which you will learn the different steps and coordinating arm movements; and a Bollywood inspired dance routine.

Duration : 0:2:8

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