Sentence examples for dance of prayer from inspiring English sources

The performance begins with a dance of prayer or consecration, "Saraswati Vandanam," choreographed by Kishore Mosalikanti and performed by Anuradha Nehru, Kalanidhi's founder (though she looks scarcely older than her youthful colleagues).

"Dances were a form of prayer: they connect earth to heaven," Ms. Shapiro said.

One recent Sunday morning, about 100 barefoot participants paid $10 for two hours of dance and prayer at a fencing gymnasium in Culver City.

Many danced joyously in "an outpouring of prayer and devotion," Rabbi Metzger said.

"If you want to understand the meaning of the dance's prayer," he said, "you have to take a bite and try it".

The piece features a beautiful fusion of Senegalese (love), hip hop and jazz dance styles and is presented in a smorgasbord of prayer, what I can only describe as a dance party, and finally prayer to wrap it up.

Ms. Muller is a resolute optimist, and three of the four new dances she presented addressed the benefits of prayer, love and resiliency.

Full of emotion, song, dance and prayer, people worked themselves up into such an emotional peak that many broke down into tears, and some even went into trances.

LIZ LERMAN DANCE EXCHANGE The first incarnation of "613 Radical Acts of Prayer," with a proposed six hundred and twelve more to go, comes to the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

Song and dance have long been parts of many religions' repertoires of prayer.

Even the form of prayer is debatable for Sufis; connectivity to God can also be done through spiritual dance and music.