(Burke) Jillian Peña (Friday and Saturday) For many dancers, the day-in, day-out practice of ballet verges on religion, a rigorous ritual demanding fervent devotion.
(Burke) Jillian Peña (Wednesday, Thursday and next Friday; through Dec. 8) For many dancers, the day-in, day-out practice of ballet verges on religion, a rigorous ritual demanding fervent devotion.
The pilgrims, who spent an average of two weeks in Saudi Arabia and paid about $4,000 to travel to Mecca and Medina, underwent rigorous rituals, including sleeping in tents in the desert, praying regularly and walking with hundreds of thousands of pilgrims around the Kaaba, a cube-shaped building in Mecca that houses the black stone believed to have been given by Gabriel to Abraham.
Female gangsters are subject to arcane rules, rigorous rituals, and inseverable commitments.
The visually spellbinding movie depicts their rigorous drills and rituals as ecstatic rites of purification and the embodiment of an impenetrable masculine mystique.
He integrated elements from ballet, chess, and bandy, and put players through rigorous and unorthodox training rituals.
What Ms. Denis has made of "Billy Budd" is the visually spellbinding cinematic equivalent of a military ballet in which the legionnaires' rigorous drills and training rituals are depicted as ecstatic rites of purification, the embodiment of an impenetrable masculine mystique before which the director stands in awe.
Enforcement is rigorous and entails curious rituals.
The rituals are also rigorous.
On top of forcing the self into places beyond the bounds of socially accepted religious practices for instance through the use of entheogens (mind-altering substances), sex rituals, and blood magick it requires rigorous self-examination.
Instead of camels and sandstorms, Parvati's coming of age is played out against a background of bharata natyam, the rigorous classical dance style rooted in South India's temple rituals.
