Category:Art And Entertainment

Flamenco

Flamenco is a passionate and seductive art form with strong, rhythmic undertones, often accompanied with a similarly impassioned style of dance that originated in parts of Spain nearly five hundred years ago. Characterised by intricate hand and footwork, the Flamenco is a dance of power and passion, where the dancers dance to the beats of their feet and the sounds of their own clapping and clicking. Flamenco embodies a complex musical and cultural tradition which has thousands of aficionado’s worldwide today. Nobody really knows how Flamenco originated as a dance form. It probably developed as an interplay of native Andalucian, Islamic, Sephardic, and Gypsy cultures that existed in Andalucia, especially Costa Del Sol. More...

Meditation

Meditation is an art, not yet counted amongst the hallowed sciences. It is the process of becoming aware of one’s consciousness and one’s place in the cosmic scheme of things. The goal is to become meditative continuously, so that your very being becomes cosmically conscious permanently and irrevocably. More...

The section on Art and Entertainment is designed to enable readers to understand how a particular culture expresses itself – in so doing they may gain a better understanding of the culture in question. Art and Entertainment forms express a culture’s language of leisure. They represent its deepest yearnings, hopes and sources of joy through sounds, actions and pictures. The articles in the section will enable readers to discover unusual entertainment and art forms, as well as provide information on the latest trends in the Art and Entertainment scene. At their very core lies the sensibility that it is when people of different cultures delight in each other’s cherished art forms or means of entertainment, that they may be able to better understand each other as well as the world they inhabit together.

Kites

• In 200 BC China, an army general used a kite to calculate the distance that a secret tunnel needed to be dug in order to allow soldiers to enter a besieged palace.
• The Chinese and Japanese developed large Kites capable of carrying a person in the air so he could spy or act as a sniper using bows and arrows.
• Italian explorer Marco Polo returned from his travels in China in 1295 AD, and introduced kite flying to Europe.
• In the Solomon Islands, Kites are used as a fishing aid.
• Koreans use Kites to announce the birth of a child.
• The Japanese make Kites in the shape of a carp fish. More...