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Some liturgical dance was common in ancient times or non-Western settings, with precedents in Judaism beginning with accounts of dancing in the Old Testament.An example is the episode when King David danced before the Ark of the Covenant (), but this instance is often considered to be outside of Jewish norms and Rabbinic rituals prescribed at the time.
The Allmusic review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album five stars and stated "the concert taps into Ellington's roots in showbiz and African-American culture as well as his evidently deep religious faith, throwing it all together in the spirit of universality and sealing everything with the stamps of his musical signatures".
This practice has its source in the escorting of the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, led by King David. As described in the Books of Samuel, this event was marked by dancing and the playing of musical instruments (2 Samuel 6:14–15). Both the priests or kohanim and David himself "danced before the Ark" or "danced before the Lord". [15] [16]
On September 16, 1965, Briggs performed at the San Francisco Grace Cathedral. He performed as David in "David Danced Before the Lord With All His Might," alongside the Herman McCoy Singers, Jon Hendricks, and Duke Ellington's band. [8] Briggs almost didn't perform for personal reasons and beliefs, but Ellington convinced him to.
A Time to Dance: Ecclesiastes 3:4; Social Dance in celebration of what God has done: Exodus 15:20; Judges 21:21 - 23; In celebration before the Lord: 2 Samuel 6:14-16; 1 Chronicles 15:29; Social dancing in celebration of a god: Exodus 32:19; 1 Kings 18:26 (The act of celebrating a false god is condemned here) A child's dance: Judges 11:34; Job ...
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The Balinese Sacred Dance Sanghyang Dedari involves girls being possessed by hyang, Bali, Indonesia. The theologian W. O. E. Oesterley proposed in 1923 that sacred dance had several purposes, the most important being to honour supernatural powers; the other purposes were to "show off" before the powers; to unite the dancer with a supernatural power, as in the dances for the Greek goddesses ...