{"id":157,"date":"2017-12-04T18:40:27","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/?p=157"},"modified":"2017-12-04T18:40:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T18:40:27","slug":"the-water-music-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/2017\/12\/04\/the-water-music-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"The Water Music Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Magical Water Music Experience\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBvlN_eFmvI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From 1.40 to 4.09<\/p>\n<p>The Water Music Dance, is a traditional practice of the women from Gaua Island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The music and dances evoke the sounds their ancestresses have lived with for thousands of years. The crescent formation reflects the way the women have worked standing in a semi-circle at the water\u2019s edge, or in the river, washing and bathing and collecting shellfish.&#8217; \u00a0-Worldmusiccentral.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Water Dance has prompted me to explore the use of water as an instrument\u00a0to evoke an immersive state of mind, similar to that used in traditional meditative techniques.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1.40 to 4.09 The Water Music Dance, is a traditional practice of the women from Gaua Island. &#8216;The music and dances evoke the sounds their ancestresses have lived with for thousands of years. The crescent formation reflects the way the women have worked standing in a semi-circle at the water\u2019s edge, or in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/2017\/12\/04\/the-water-music-dance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Water Music Dance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/dpty3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}