Sentence examples for ritual drama from inspiring English sources

Events include an episodic ritual drama, feast, carnival, games, vendors and more.

"Night Journey" is ritual drama, impelled by William Schuman's score and contained in a timeless place by the sculptures of Isamu Noguchi's décor.

The Jamaican performance artist and storyteller will invoke ritual drama, song chants and traditional Jamaican folklore, tomorrow at 1 p.m. at the Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, Chelsea.

Characteristic modes of response to the holy include cultic acts of all kinds: ritual drama, prayers of many sorts, dancing, ecstatic speech, veneration of various persons and objects, sermons, silent meditation, and sacred music and song.

Re-creating the Holy Family's search for room in a Bethlehem inn on the night of the Nativity, the ritual drama builds toward the moment when the altar-giver opens her home to Joseph and Mary.

Ritual drama in general is amply attested in Egyptian religious practice; day-to-day ceremonial in the cult of gods or god-kings (pharaohs) was recorded in the minutest detail.

Ritual dramas were written on the same legendary stories of Greek heroes in festival after festival.

We find ourselves surrounded by late modern versions of all those ritual dramas and religious pageants that thrived in ancient and medieval times.

Ritual dramas like this were performed to ensure the fertility of women, cattle, and crops and to invest the spirit of the community and its leaders with vitality for the new year.

One was the symbolic ritual dramas of the seasons such as the Plow Monday play (English Midlands), in which a plow was decorated and pulled around the village (thought to have originally been a fertility god carried around the fields on a plow), or the European folk drama of the Wild Man of the Woods, in which a figure covered with leaves, representing winter, was ritually hunted and "killed".

In Greece the progress from ritual to ritual-drama was continued in highly formalized theatrical representations.