When you ballroom dance, the man decides where the woman is going to go. His aim better be good.
Category: Dancing
Since we just celebrated Halloween, All Saints Day and All Souls Day, it seems like a good time to talk about Maya “way” or Mexican Nauals. These are spirit animals that dance in the underworld. The Maya believed their King had an animal essence that would roam the earth while he slept.
Ballroom Dance Studios are a great meeting place. It’s a polite, supportive atmosphere filled with the best music of all genres.
In the Anthropology Museum in Merida there are many representations of twins. These twins populate many creation stories. Once thought to be recent, these stories were told in antiquity.
Cheryl is a ballroom dancer who has taken many lessons in the past, and in Entering the West she returns to the studio.
Dance is also very important to the Indigenous people of the Americas, past and present, from the prairie nations and their secret societies to the Maya whose Kings danced at ceremonies of accession and religious meaning.
The Mexican site Palenque has many stucco figures adorning its temples; including this one of the King Pakal dancing which you can find on the Palace.
In her hotel room in Mexico City, Cheryl hears music and investigates. The music was coming from the other side of the window. But her room didn’t face outside.
There were many occasions where a Maya King would dance for the people
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