Sentence examples for ecstatic dances from inspiring English sources

The Dervishes were later granted a "cultural" status and permitted to continue performing their ecstatic dances.

Ailey called it "a soul dance — a series of ecstatic dances".

It is an ingenious paradox, found also in old ecstatic dances.

During the orgiastic rites of Dionysus, maenads roamed the mountains and forests performing frenzied, ecstatic dances and were believed to be possessed by the god.

She and her company of twenty dancers and musicians — who play such instruments as the sarangi, a lute, and the algoza, a flute — bring the vibrant, sensual, and sometimes ecstatic dances of the Saperas to Symphony Space for two World Music Institute performances.

In Hugo von Hofmannsthal's text, Elektra dances herself to death in an ecstatic dance.

Less of an ecstatic dance than "Shira," it has a more brilliant and sharper thrust.

"Blowing Up," which recalls the ecstatic dance-soul records of the mid-1980s, is flirty but not lascivious.

The entry of repetitive percussion sweeps him into a quietly ecstatic dance: a tour de force performance.

So far, his ambition to forge a contemporary form of ecstatic dance exceeds his company's grasp.

This sensual pagan regimen, characterized by mud baths and ecstatic dance rituals, would serve Harry well as his last Utopia.