Sentence examples for religious dance from inspiring English sources

Like bharatanatyam, kathakali is a religious dance.

In primitive religious dance such unity tends to be even more strictly observed.

Segment of an extensive religious dance performed at the festival of St. Sebastian in Jalisco, Mex.

Elsewhere, religious dance societies were based on age grades, as in the male warrior societies of the northern Plains.

The ring shout (a religious dance usually accompanied by the singing of spirituals and clapped rhythms) is of African ancestry.

The religious dance masks of many societies, including those used in ancient Tibet and in Buddhist sects of Japan, may to some extent also belong to this class.

The most significant dances are the religious dance-dramas taken over from such medieval religious productions as moros y cristianos ("Moors and Christians") and the matachina dances both for trained male societies.

They've even discovered a percussion instrument, a "sistrus" used for religious dances to worship the Egyptian goddess Hathor.

There were also a war leader, a person in charge of religious dances, and a shaman, or medicine man or woman.

In societies far older than ours, dance was integrated into the daily fabric of people's lives: in religious dances, war dances, fertility dances, child-birthing dancers, even dances that incorporated the rituals of trading.

Chinese theatre originated in early religious dances, performed at festivals to exorcise demons, reenact important historical events, or prepare for harvest, hunting, or warfare.