Donorian Traditional Dance

Donorian traditional dances are the various dances that come from Donorian culture. Most dance styles are theatrical, used to tell a story or embody a character or person.

Donorian Dance tends to be very emotional and dynamic, with lots of crisp clean movements.

Dance Types

Surik Story Dance

The Surik Story Dance is a type of donorian dance that is used to tell stories and often accompanies storytelling and singing. It is often used as a form of entertainment and theater.

The movements tend to be very crisp and dynamic, with the dancer often striking specific poses or making specific movements used to communicate a character doing certain things of having a certain personality. The dance sequences typically start with slow precise movements before quickening into more snappy movements as the music picks up, often slowing down again towards the end.

There are different costumes and movements used to communicate to the audience whether the character being portrayed is male, female, or anything else with little changes depending on the dancer's personal gender identity. There is more focus on the character that the dancer is embodying, than who the dancer is themselves.

Feminine characters are typically characterized by more swaying and twisting movements, with masculine characters having more angular sharp movements, especially when portraying a more energetic character.

The Surik story dance is often accompanied by music, to provide rhythm for the dancers, as well as singing, either by a separate singer or by the dancer themselves. Performance groups are typically unisex, accepting people based on skill, with the different roles being given to people regardless of if their gender matches up with the character’s or not.