Crystal Magazine Aug 07, 2020
Learn the secrets of the Kembla dance
“Kembla" is the most prominent
traditional dance in Sudan, famous for it in the Nuba Mountains in the state of
South Kordofan, south of Khartoum. It is a social tradition practiced in the
autumn season to celebrate the rains. These dances are also performed to
celebrate the agricultural season, and these rituals are inaugurated before
weddings and happy occasions. Members of the tribe awaited him and brought him
a special quality of costumes and decorations, accompanied by songs and chants
of courage, generosity and hope
The Kembla dance is arranged by complex
systems and carefully arranged rituals among the Nuba tribes, and it is passed
down from generation to generation. Al-Sabouri is the origin of Kembla,
Kadugli, Meri, Murta, and Koufa. “The Kembla constitutes an important cultural
legacy for these tribes due to the strict systems and chants that accompany it
that express the people of the region
The kembla is performed as is customary in
a uniform, the most important of which is to place the horns of
"cows" on the head and their provisions with a strong tie in a
certain and strong way so that they are fixed when the mountain rises, dances
or runs a very far distance. Where the region was famous for collective singing,
and during the dance the men imitate the bellows of the husky bull, which is
the first symbol in the kembla dance. Its horns express strength, patience and
endurance, and the "kembla" songs always refer in their meanings to
intensity, strength and success of the agricultural season, and the season's
champions of contestants and contestants the kembla has its own
tools that are necessary to complete the procedures for the beginning of the
dance from it. “The whip” is the basis for “sounding” the beginning of the kembla,
and “sounding” is a pagan belief among the people of the region who believe in
the exit of a “whip” from a region in a mountain and it is believed that it
will exit in the period between “1-15” September of each year, which is the
specified time for the kembla, and it is said that this whip automatically
comes out of itself on a specific evening and makes sounds from the top of the
“Sabouri” mountain, where the hut of Al-Kajur runs everything from there
Among the Nuba tribes, the Kembla dance is
linked to the maturity of boys, as the Nubians imitate their courage with
bulls, and the costumes, movements and sounds that are issued during the dance
are similar to these large animals. Men wear horns on their heads as a sign of
strength, and they carry very heavy animal skins on their backs. The tenth is
practicing the kembla dance, and whoever has abstained from practicing this
dance during 6 consecutive years without a local motif is not entitled to place
the two horns on his head
Women are distributed in circles performing
songs, while men dance in the middle, making rhythmic movements with the two
men, and moving from one place to another, and they have to continue dancing
for the longest time, and bear the weight of the skins thrown on their backs, and
whoever stands up takes the responsibility of protecting the tribe, says
Muhammad Rahhal. From the whole of the Kadugli tribe, the dances are spread
among the men and women of the tribe, and that each dance has specific rituals
and specific connotations.
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