Dance with the Dead is an American music duo formed in California in 2013 by Justin Pointer and Tony Kim.
Their music has been characterized as a blend of metal and Electronic music, as well as "dark synthwave"..
The tradition, called "famadihana" in Malagasy, is sometimes referred to as "dancing with the dead," "the turning of the bones" or "body turning," according to Newsweek..
Dance/ElectronicDance With the Dead / Genre.
“Dancing with the dead” best describes the burial tradition in Madagascar of Famadihana.
The Malagasy people open the tombs of their dead every few years and rewrap them in fresh burial clothes.
Each time the dead get fresh wrappings, they also get a fresh dance near the tomb while music plays all around..
Strictly speaking, it is a literary or pictorial representation of a procession or dance of both living and dead figures, the living arranged in order of their rank, from pope and emperor to child, clerk, and hermit, and the dead leading them to the grave..
The Danse Macabre (/dɑːns məˈkɑːb(rə)/; French pronunciation: [dɑ̃s ma. kabʁ]) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death..
“Dancing with the dead” best describes the burial tradition in Madagascar of Famadihana.
The Malagasy people open the tombs of their dead every few years and rewrap them in fresh burial clothes.
Each time the dead get fresh wrappings, they also get a fresh dance near the tomb while music plays all around..
Dance with the Dead was formed by two friends Justin Pointer and Tony Kim in 2013. The two are originally from Anaheim, California
Adapted from Bandcamp, Spotify, and YouTube • Out of Body (October 2013
