Is dance religious? The question has always troubled me. For one, the question suggests a yes or no answer when neither is sufficient. Certainly, dancing appears as a major strand of all global ...

“Revelations” is a particularly programmatic take on religion, but modern dance’s religious dimension goes back to its roots. Martha Graham, who called dancers “acrobats of God” and believed that ...

DANCING and architecture are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of architecture is ...

SIVA, the Creator-Destroyer of Hinduism’s trinity, once stood on a demon and with one of his four arms began to shake a little hand drum. To the beat of this rhythm Siva moved his body, and with his ...

I first learned of jingle dress dancers when I saw them at an Earth Day Celebration here in Austin a couple years ago. The dresses, also known as a prayer dresses, are lined with rows of metal cones ...

There’s power in dance. It’s good for mental, physical and spiritual health. But like religion, dancing sometimes requires a leap of faith. “It is through the doing that we become,” Jewish Iraqi ...

pt. I. General considerations -- 1. Introduction -- Prelude -- Dancing for life -- Native North American religious traditions -- Common features -- The number four -- Reciprocity -- Tobacco and other ...