Baishou Dance

Description

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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Baishou Dance
or baishouwu (literally ‚hand-waving dance‘) is a 500 year old historic
group dance of the Tujia, one of 55 ethnic minorities in China. The
dance uses 70 ritual gestures to represent war, farming, hunting,
courtship and other aspects of traditional life.A gesture is a form of
non-verbal communication in which visible bodily actions communicate
particular messages, either in place of speech or together and in
parallel with spoken words. Gestures include movement of the hands,
face, or other parts of the body. Gestures differ from physical
non-verbal communication that does not communicate specific messages,
such as purely expressive displays, proxemics, or displays of joint
attention. Gestures allow individuals to communicate a variety of
feelings and thoughts, from contempt and hostility to approval and
affection, often together with body language in addition to words when
they speak.