She takes us back "to the religious and humanist origins of ballet: back to the Great Chain of Being, to angels and the harmony of spheres, to the court of Louis XIV and the strict aristocratic etiquette that had first given ballet its forms".
"Serenade" was Balanchine's first piece for his new American dancers, an incorporation of rehearsal events and an evocation of the hardships and almost religious exaltation of a career in ballet.
Building an Empire Mr. Moon's organizations established connections with African-American religious leaders, and he made forays into culture and education, establishing a ballet company in South Korea and financing a ballet school in Washington.
I may love a very sensual ballet, but if we're performing near a religious community and it might offend them, I won't do it.
We discover here that Chess City is to expand across the landscape to embrace opera and ballet theaters, museums, a conservatory, an art school, religious academies, a center of traditional medicine and a "complex for children's creativity".
His art revolves around celebrities, ballet dancers and nudes, also taking in sporting scenes, religious works and grand cityscapes.
For 37-year-old Lopatkina, a gravely beautiful figure with sea-grey eyes and the most eloquent arms in ballet, her art form has always been a quasi-religious calling.
Lindy hop, 18th and 19th century classical ballet, belly dancing, Balkan circle, MTV-style group choreography, mystic dances and religious gestures are all in evidence.
Sue had always gone to church with her parents, but, around the time she met Hector, her ballet teacher started inviting her to Bible-study classes, and she started getting religious in a more serious way.
Composed in 1911, it is the least performed of Debussy's major works, a strange combination of ballet and cantata, with a dubious text by Gabriele D'Annunzio that queasily mixes religious fervour with an ambiguous sexual charge.
