Divine Dance Paintings That Make You See The Movement In The Stillness

Divine Dance Paintings That Make You See The Movement In The Stillness

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Dance is an art form that you cannot hate, you can either be indifferent or passionately in love with. This is because dance is a very personal art form where you express your inner artist using your body, your face, your limbs and your movements in a particular manner. In this article we are not just talking about dance, but about paintings that depict dance. In essence, this means that the artist loves dance and loves to paint. This means he or she would try to capture the fluidity of the dance movement in their paint strokes or with the help of other painting medium. This meant that they studied different styles of dancing and captured them in the form of a painting. They may have looked at different types of painting like these ink painting ideas for inspiration before sitting down in front of the canvas to capture the glory of the dance and the dancer in a manner that could show the essence of it correctly.

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The Dance of Zalongo

The Dance of Zalongo

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Above the village of Kamarina, near Preveza, Greece, is the historic cliffs of Mount Zalongo. It was here in 1803, during the Souliote War, some fifty to sixty Souliot women, along with their children committed mass suicide in order to avoid being captured and enslaved by the soldiers of the Ottoman ruler Ali Pasha. According to the legend, the women defiantly danced and sang as one by one they threw their children off the cliff and then followed immediately after. The incident became known as the Dance of Zalongo.

The Souliotes were originally refugees from the Greek village of Paramythia who escaped the Ottomans and settled in the remote mountainous areas of Epirus, where they enjoyed an autonomous status. Attracted by the privileges of autonomy, immigrants from elsewhere assimilated with the Souliotes and they grew in strength and number until they were powerful enough to successfully resist Ottoman rule. The Souliotes didn’t pay taxes to the empire, instead, they demanded tribute from the Turks of the area. At the height of its power, in the second half of the 18th century, they dominated over 60 villages in the region.



The Monument of Zalongo honoring the women who chose death over disgrace and misery. Photo credit: Harry Gouvas/Wikimedia

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