Dancing in Xurno

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 2:53 pm

Just out of curiousity- since there are so many different dance styles in Xurno, do any of them look like present-day party dancing?

Shades Of Grey · Post by **Shades Of Grey** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 2:55 pm

Ii think a more intresting question... and more absurd would be do they mosh in Xurno?

Raphael · Post by **Raphael** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 3:10 pm

Shades Of Grey wrote:Ii think a more intresting question... and more absurd would be do they mosh in Xurno?

I'm afraid my English isn't up-to-date enough to know that word. Even stranger, my dictionary gives as a translation an apparently derived German word wich I haven't heard yet, either. I guess I must be hopelessly behind on slang.

Shades Of Grey · Post by **Shades Of Grey** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 3:18 pm

Moshing comes from the word "Mosh Pit" or a place where people come to headband, and jump around, push and thrash voilently all over the place. So to mosh is to thrash and headband to loud music.

eodrakken · Post by **eodrakken** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 3:21 pm

I think you mean "headbang", not "headband". Unless I, too, am woefully behind the times. :)

Post by **zompist** » Mon Jun 02, 2003 3:46 pm

Hmm. Possibly. Although Xurnese tastes run to the ordered, and young artists are supposed to master convention, there are two routes I can see to more unstructured forms:

1. Ecstatic experience. This is definitely a part of Bezuxao, which has had an influence far beyond its numbers in Xurno.

2. The need for attention, which is most easily met by novelty. Since the Revolution Xurnese art has gone through a dizzying succession of styles
(and revolution in itself can make rejecting old conventions a virtue). This could lead to something like modern Western dance just as it has in our own culture.