What sort of Dances do the Ainu do?

Answer 1

In addition, there are various other dances : a group dance in which participants demonstrate their individuality and continue to dance until their stamina is exhausted, with the last dancer winning the competition, a narrative dance, a work dance, and many more representing plants and animals indispensable to a hunting and gathering people. "Sarorunchikap rimse "/ "Sarorunrimse"With a crane motion theme "Hanchikap rimse" With a water bird theme " Chak peeyak" With a rain swallow theme " Chikapne"/"Hararki" With a bird theme " Chironnup rimse"With a fox theme "Isepoupopo" With a hare theme "Erum upopo"With a mouse theme "Fumpe rimse/Fumpenere"With a whale theme "Ponkenetay"A dance symbolizing a black alder grove "Sir kor kamuy"An acorn-collecting dance "Hanchikap rimse""Sarorunchikap rimse"Of these, "Fumperimse" begins with a scene in which an old woman finds a "visiting whale," a weak whale which has been beached. Hearing the news, villagers gather at the scene and begin to butcher the "godsend," and a flock of crows then hovers about in the hope of a morsel from the feast. It is said that to realize people's wishes, the villagers in the story dramatized a desirable result, and thus that this is a form of magical dance to pray for a plentiful hunt. "Fumperimse" Just as do songs, the aforementioned dances constitute forms unique to individual districts and are numerous in variety. They are even today being transmitted and preserved throughout Hokkaido, some now designated as important intangible cultural properties.