Sentence examples for harvest dance from inspiring English sources

That night, Inci demonstrated a harvest dance.

"Hope it's not that harvest dance down on the riverbank.

The title comes from the unmarried women's jokes about being dateless for the harvest dance during the festival honoring the pagan god Lugh and their intention to go together and dance with one another.

The couple met as college freshmen in September 1988 and remained casual friends until their senior year in 1991, when he asked her to the annual Harvest dance and she accepted.

UPPER SALFORD TOWN SHIP, Pa., Aug. 31 An un usual mixture of dances a Nigerian harvest dance, a Morris dance, jigs, reels and a stool danae from Ghana— provided the high points of the final day of the Philadel phia Folk Festival, which drew 27,000 people to Old Pool Farm here over the weekend.

Four of his female colleagues, in long flowing skirts, diaphanous scarves attached to their wrists, assemble in the center of the room to begin a section of a gentle harvest dance, led by the teacher Chang Soo Kim and accompanied by musicians playing drums, a large gong and a zither.

Because many folk performances were held as part of religiously sanctioned rituals (Korean mask plays ensuring harvest, dances and dance plays of many varieties in Japan dedicated to local Shintō deities), performers achieved considerable status in the local community by their participation in these essential communal rites.

But among traditional cultures and throughout most of human history, she said, art has also been a profoundly communal affair, of harvest dances, religious pageants, quilting bees, the passionate town rivalries that gave us the spires of Chartres, Reims and Amiens.

There are magico-ritual dances of propitiation as well as harvest dances, including the "sea-harvest" dances of fishing communities in Calabria and the wine harvest dances in Tuscany.

The Trials of Brother Jero, a satire on the Nigerian obsession with priests and prophets, is a comic masterpiece; his plays Madmen and Specialists, Kongi's Harvest and Dance of the Forests are eloquent examples of protest theatre.

The rainy season became the dry, and the villagers brought out harvest masks to dance benedictions to the ancestors.