Johanna-Hypatia Cybeleia ([info]johanna_hypatia) wrote,
@ 2009-06-25 19:48:00
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Entry tags:dance, poetry, tamil

Dancers
மள்ளர் குழீஇய விழவி னானும்
மகளிர் தழீஇய துணங்கை யானும்
யாண்டுங் காணேன் மாண்தக் கோனை
யானுமோர் ஆடுகள மகளே என்கைக்
கோடீர் இலங்குவளை நெகிழ்த்த
பீடுகெழு குரிசிலுமோர் ஆடுகள மகளே.

maLLar kulīiya vilavi nānum
makaLir talīiya tuNankai yānum
yāNTung kāNēn māNtak kōnai
yānumōr āTukaLa makaLē enkai
kōTīr ilankuvaLai nekiltta
pīTukelu kuricilum ōr āTukaLa makaLē

Nowhere, not among the warriors at their festival,
nor with the girls dancing close in pairs,
nowhere did I see my dancer.

I am a dancer;
my pride, my lover,

—for love of her
these conch-shell bangles slip
from my wasting hands—
she's a dancer too.

—Kuruntokai 31
attributed to Princess Ādimantiyār (2nd century CE)

Happy birthday, Vicki! :*

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[info]virginia_fell
2009-06-26 01:29 am UTC (link)
That was lovely. Thank you for posting it.

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[info]invisione
2009-06-26 02:47 am UTC (link)
Thank you, honey. :*

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[info]cmcmck
2009-06-26 07:20 am UTC (link)
Nice!

And happy birthday to you too! Sorry to be late- yesterday was frantically busy (including visiting a friend in hospital the day after her re- birthday :o)

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[info]invisione
2009-06-26 11:53 am UTC (link)
Thanks! And congratulations to your friend. :)

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[info]laura_seabrook
2009-06-26 09:14 am UTC (link)

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[info]johanna_hypatia
2009-06-26 03:59 pm UTC (link)
Thanks, Laura! I posted this poem because Vicki and I have just started belly dance class together. Kawakib raqs sharqi means 'stars of belly dance'.

This type of musical piece is called taqsim which literally means 'division'. It has exactly two minutes of slow, improvisational introduction, followed by slightly less than three minutes of rhythmic music with drumming. This ratio forms the golden section, (a+b)/a=a/b=~0.618=φ, which has been considered a harmonious proportion in visual art as well as music since ancient Greek times. When you mathematically analyze works of art as well as forms in nature derived from the Fibonacci sequence like sunflowers, the golden ratio keeps turning up. Bartók composed music that was structured according to this ratio.

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[info]laura_seabrook
2009-06-27 01:53 am UTC (link)
Wow!

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