PARALLELS OF DANCE AND PLOT IN OGODI FEMALE BURIAL DANCE OF THE OGBARU IGBO SUB-GROUP OF EASTERN NIGERIA
No Thumbnail Available
Files
Date
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Abstract
Description
Ogodi dance is a funeral dance drama performed among the Ogbaru lgbo people of
Nigeria to celebrate the lifetime of a deceased, indigenously born woman, (Maduagwu,
2012). This work analyses the inter-play of dance on the one hand. and song lyrics on the
other. as p1ot projectors in the performance of this ritual drama. The work aims to
establish the importanc~ uf dance dynamics in African religious theatre. It decodes the
heavy symbolism which characterize& ritual forms and which poses problems of analysis
for researchers in the field. With relatively little documentation on the life of the woman
inA frican society. the non-,erbal information encoded in dance is an important source of
data on the woman in oral societies such. Ogodi dance of Ogbaru lgbo people as a
performance exclusively set aside for ·Nomen provides an ideal model and also fills the
gap in this area of gender study.
Keywords
H Social Sciences (General), PN Literature (General)