Na'vi Dance Costume

The Na'vi wear dance costumes during various festivals and rituals.
As you know, dances are of great importance in the life of the Na'vi, and hardly any great celebration is complete without them and the nature of the dance, like the songs, can be completely different from sad to joyful from wild and unrestrained to slow and smooth, from the simple to the incredibly complex and artistic.
Many dances are in their own way, stories that are told to the public through body movements and shouts, so it is not surprising that many dance costumes are more like masks with which the dancer can transform into various animals, so that its "design" extensively uses bundles of feathers and long multicolored cords, with which they hang from the dancer's arms and legs, as well as complex composite structures that carry, for example, the crest of a direhorse or the horns of a sturmbeest. Naturally, getting around in such a suit, which often towers a good six feet behind the Na'Vi and is outfitted with many decorative pendants to provide balance, isn't easy at all, but the Na'vi use this feature to convey the massive and wild, unbridled power of the beast; After all, these animals often become participants in dance hunts, when two groups, the herd, and the hunters, intricately turn against each other, in a somewhat artistic version, showing all the events of a real hunt: from the defeats to the victories of an inexperienced hunter, trampled by a stumble that ran to the triumph of the whole group, finally filling the mighty beast.
Children especially like these costumed dances - after all, by watching this kind of performance, they learn not only how to perform on a hunt, but also the coherence of movements and mutual understanding between members of the group, which often turns out to be no less important than dexterity and hunting ability.
In the "Hunt Festival" deleted scene following the Great Hunt, the Omaticayas held a costume party and many Na'vi, including Neytiri, danced dressed as various animals by the fire.
==Gallery==
Firedance female banshe 123 flatv001a+copy.jpg|Banshee's costume
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The akway firedance v001aflat+copy.jpg|Akwey's Dance Costume
Moat firedance flatv001+copy.jpg|Mo'at's Dance Costume
Firedance jake2+copy.jpg|Jake's Dance Costume
Neytiri firedance flatv002+copy.jpg|Neytiri's Dance Costume
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Greathorse v001a flat+copy.jpg|Great Spirit Direhorse's Costume
Firedance6select dy dd6flat+copy.jpg|Direhorse's Costume
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Firedance sturmbeest v001a flat+copy.jpg|Sturmbeest's Costume
Category:Na'vi culture