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In 1981 Christopher Bruce choreographed a dance about the human rights of people in Chile and how they were tortured or killed and left to rot on the side of the road until they were found. The dance is called Ghost Dancers.
In Ghost Dances there are a eleven dances, there were three people who represented the dead and the rest of the dances were the Sullivans who were just doing their normal everyday activities and didn’t know when death was going to come and take them away. These dances used traditional folk movement and accompanied by the andies folk music. At the beginning of Ghost Dances the Skelton like people that represent death start dancing without any music playing but just to a blood like dripping sound.

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