Instructions and few moves for bee rave
Stand up from where you are sitting at and move to a better and more open place with bee walk. (beewalk.mp4)
If you’re not alone, show them the bee dance . If you are, show it to yourself. You can use a mirror if you want.(beedance.mp4)
Put on some danceable music. If you don’t know any of it. Here is a song we danced to on Friday 23rd of July in Mynämäki.
You are in the hive now.
It’s dark and hot. Hot and dark. Try saying that out loud as you walk around the space.
Say HOT when you throw your hands out forward and DARK when you throw them up in the air. Marlon shows you how. Do it with him and do it with the music. (hotndark.mp4)
It is very crowded and smelly. Everyone is minding everyones business. It is summer, sun is shining and you are about to go out and forage.
You are at the landing board showing your stinger to the sun. Whoa! What a big and poisonous stinger.
Do the honey slap! Bend your knees and treat yourself with a good series of slaps to the softest place of your bum. 1 2 3 4 5 6 at least. (honey slap.mp4)
You fly from flower to flower. Nectar is sweet and there is plenty of it now.
Winter in the hive (an adaptation of the dance we did in Saari residence as I remember it)
Winter in the hive requires more dancers, at least four. Select who will become the queen and put on more danceable music that should last at least 6 minutes. This for example.
Queen: “Do you want to do the winter?”
Cluster: “Yeah!”
Queen: “Come to the cluster now.”
Queen: “Let’s huddle!”
Dancing people form a tight group around the queen and start to huddle.
Queen: “It is so hot and sweaty here in the middle.”
huddling and dancing
Queen: “Hey guys, this is how it’s gonna be like for the next three months.”
huddling and dancing
Queen: “Can I touch you a bit? Can I use you a little? There is nothing to do but huddle here.”
Touching and huddling
Queen: “Hey guys, this is how it’s gonna be like for the next two months.”
Queen: “Round and round we go in circles.”
Dancers move places around the queen.
Queen: “Hey guys, this is how it’s gonna be like for the last one month.”
Queen: “I start laying eggs here in the middle. I lay eggs now. You being to feed me.”
Queen is kneeling in the middle of the cluster.
Queen: “It is spring. It is +7 out in the shadow. You go out to release yourself. It feels so good to go out at last. “
buzzing and huddling and dancing more loosely.
Queen: “We survived the winter. Many died but we survived.”
These videos were recorded by Ina with her phone on 31st of Jyly 2021 close to a neolithic dwelling site. Bee dancer: Marlon Moilanen.
