Corroboree

A Corroboree (partly written Coorroboree ) is a traditional ceremony that prevent the Aborigines in Australia. There are events with dancing, music, singing and body painting. Parts of the Corroberees go back to the creation story of the Dreamtime. The term is also now used partly for celebrations with dance, music and theater representations, especially in English speaking countries.

Expiration

In the mythical notions of Aboriginal creation figures created the people, the animals, the plants and the birds and they created the landscape and the mind. This created reality and the underlying spirits translated rules and these rules must be observed and maintained. Rules are lived and continued by the Aborigines hold their Coroborees. The Aborigines keep these rules they consider as laws, one with the holding of corroborees and thus the Dreamtime lives (also called dreamstime) on. Men and women are subject to different rules and behavior in corroborees and differ according to the received ideas of the respective peoples of the Aborigines. There are corroborees that can be held only at certain spiritual places, doing their tradition combines in the broadest sense with nature conservation. These sites are to remain completely unchanged as a results of creation figures unchanged as spiritual places. Why is mining and road construction that alters these sites rejected.

At the initiation of adolescent Aboriginal Coroborees take place, in which no adult should be present. The young people adorn themselves with body painting as with characters, symbols and images of their Totems that are associated with them.

In the end of the corroborees sand painting and body painting are well cared for. Custom made clothing and clothing, headdresses and body jewelry are worn for this occasion. It also totems made ​​of wood and bast carved figures and Rindenschnitzerei and painting are used in the ceremonies.

The variety of corroborees is large and the events and stories of creation of this are different. The corroborees are completely different from clan to clan, partially secret and in this case, no one outside the Aboriginal community must participate or watch it. The knowledge and skills, the processes, the dance and the rituals are complicated and require detailed knowledge that is only shared with certain people within the respective Aboriginal tribes.

Corroborees with mythical contents are also shown in theaters, one of the first theater performances entitled " Corroboree ", designed John Antill already in 1950 in Sydney.

Name

The Europeans have the name occurring in Aboriginesprache caribberie for this ritual in Corroboree modified. In the northwest of Australia Corroboree is a general name for any theatrical presentation. But there is juju the terms and kobbakobba it. In the language of the Pilbara Aborigines are corroborees yanda or jalarra and in the Kimberley region is Junba traditionally used for it. Outside of Australia, especially in English-speaking countries, the term is partially known and include, for festivals, songs, dances, music and various performances, inter alia, also small theater performances or skits used.