Sentence examples for devotional dance from inspiring English sources

"The lotus flow is a devotional dance," she added.

Apache men performing the gahan, a devotional dance.

The Sidi Sufis are Muslim mystics who worship the black Sufi saint Bava Gor, and their devotional dance is acrobatic and ecstatic.

They built ever larger and more elaborate temples festooned with stone images of gods, goddesses and their acolytes; these were thriving centers of faith as well as of devotional dance, music and poetry.

Local officials said eye witnesses had reported the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber who detonated explosives amid a 500-strong crowd that had crammed into the shrine to watch a devotional dance performance.

The whole program at the Ailey Citigroup Theater had a firm structure: starting with a devotional dance of invocation, proceeding to three pieces in which the dancer plays a different character in a particular situation and concluding with a pure-dance solo.

For nine nights, men, women and children dress up in brightly colored clothing and perform the characteristic devotional dances of Navratri known as Garba and Raas.

Each Orisha has devotional songs, dances and rhythms associated with him or her, and Cutumba will begin its performances with a 12-minute introduction of the Orishas from the Yoruba pantheon.

The evening features the offering of diya candles, devotional music and dance, and traditional worship.

Audiences and critics embraced its signature blend of modern dance and devotional gestures to convey the struggle between the sacred and profane.

Gujarati stick dances and Bhajan devotional songs from Northern India are in his blood, well mixed by now with the pop sounds of a boyhood in Rochester, New York: Prince and James Brown, then Miles and Monk.