Vietnam Religious Dances Video
Religious dance may sound similar to the also-mentioned religious belief category of dance, but is more structured to the three main organized religions of Buddhism, Catholicism and Brahmanism.
They are not numerous, but still occupy enough cultural space to form this peculiar category.
Religious belief dance exists and develops in spiritual life through rites, customs and practices of each ethnic community.
It’s usually showed on occasions such as: funeral, divine worship, treatment, services of the soil god, the sea god, the harvest god, the forest god worships, expelling demons, etc…by powwows.
Religious dances of Viet community (the Kinh people)
Viet/Kinh people are in a majority of Vietnam population. Most of them embrace Buddhism, worship at home, pagodas and temples. Religious belief with dance has become a very effective tool. “Hau bong” dance (also called Len dong dance – dance into a trace), a kind of religious dances of Viet ethnic group, is an official rite in the service of worships. There are 3 genres of hau bong dance separated or miced upon working environment.
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