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Dances of Universal Peace. A 'Dances of Universal Peace ' session with the dance teacher and accompanying musicians in the centre and the dancers of all ages and abilities in circles around them. The Dances of Universal Peace (DUP) are a spiritual practice that employs singing and dancing the sacred phrases of the world's religions.
Spiral dance. The spiral dance, also called the grapevine dance and the weaver’s dance, is a traditional group dance practiced in Neopaganism in the United States, especially in feminist Wicca and the associated "Reclaiming" movement. It is designed to emphasize "community and rebirth", and is also used "to raise power in a ritual".
Whirling Dervishes, at Rumi Fest 2007. Sufi whirling (or Sufi turning) (Turkish: Semazen borrowed from Persian Sama-zan, Sama, meaning listening, from Arabic, and zan, meaning doer, from Persian) is a form of physically active meditation which originated among certain Sufi groups, and which is still practiced by the Sufi Dervishes of the Mevlevi order and other orders such as the Rifa'i-Marufi.
Revelations "Take me to the Water" performed by Alvin Ailey Dance Theater in 2011. Revelations is the best-known [1] work of the modern dance choreographer Alvin Ailey.It is also the signature work of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which premiered an extended version of the work (lasting over an hour) [2] in 1960, when Ailey was 29 years old.
Tandava. A Shiva Nataraja idol in Tamil Nadu, India. Tandava (also spelled as Tāṇḍavam), also known as Tāṇḍava Natyam, is a divine dance performed by Hindu god Shiva. [1][2][3][4][5] Shiva is depicted as dancing the Tandava in his form of Nataraja. The Natya Shastra, a Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts, describes various ...
Sun dance, Shoshone at Fort Hall, 1925. The Sun Dance is a ceremony practiced by some Native Americans in the United States and Indigenous peoples in Canada, primarily those of the Plains cultures, as well as a new movement within Native American religions, 1890 the Shoshone people in origin. [1][2][3][4] It usually involves the community ...
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The Nritya is a slower and more expressive aspect of the dance that attempts to communicate feelings, and storyline, particularly with spiritual themes in Hindu dance traditions. [74] In a nritya, the dance-acting expands to include silent expression of words through gestures and body motion set to musical notes. The actor articulates a legend ...