Die dokumentasie en danskundige ontleding van bepaalde Suid–Sotho–danse met verwysing na die liggaamlike opvoedingprogram

[摘要] Traditional dances of the South Sotho of Qwaqwa were studied as a productof culture. The two major objectives were: to document, and analysespecific South Sotho dances and relate them holistically to the culture;and to determine which dances of the girls and the women would besuitable for inclusion in the Syllabus for Physical Education for Girlsin the Republic of South Africa according to certain educationalcriteria.The aspects investigated in the study included the following:1. An ethnographic image of the South Sotho relating toancestry, way of life and culture;2. Dance as a cultural phenomenon and the place and function ofdance in the culture of the South Sotho;3. The notation of selected dances, an analysis of the dancemovements and choreographic structure of the dances;4. The educational value of folk and ethnic dances for implementationin the physical education programme, according to relevantobjectives.The techniques used to identify, classify, document and analyse thedances, included fieldwork done through personal observation, participatingobservation, video filming of the dances, sound recordings of the songsand personal interviews. The sequence of steps was notated descriptivelyand graphically. The movements of the free body segments and dancetechnique were described and the floor pattern of each step sequence, theinformation with the accompaniment and the floor plan of the dance weretranscribed graphically. The number of repetitions of the stepsequences and the order of the parts of the dances were notated accordingto counts.The following dances were identified: women's dances - mokgibo,moqoqopelo, ledingwana, thojane, timiti and famu; girls' dances -mokgibo, play dances, ndlamu and bale dances; men's dances - mohobelo,mokorotlo, diphotha and setapo; boys dance the same dances apartfrom the mokorotlo. Wedding dances and thojane are also dancedtogether by both sexes. The four dances which were documentedinclude the wedding dance Ausi o manele, a play dance (Tikwe hamalome), ledingwana-women's dance (Diponono ha kena basadi) andmogogopelo women's dance (Ke lelekuwe bohadi).The main findings of the study indicated that dance is stillclosely interlinked with the cultural life of the South Sotho andthat the purpose of the dance manifests itself mainly in terms ofsocial recreation. Specific dances of the South Sotho can beutilized in a meaningful way in the physical education programme forgirls because of the educational value, the link with the culturalobjectives of the folk dance section of the syllabus and the relevanceto the present needs of society.

[发布机构] North-West University