Sentence examples for snake dance from inspiring English sources

My most endearing memory of the mystical night was of Adam doing a snake dance with a local elder, snapping his fingers in rhythm and dancing lower and lower to the ground in the center of the clapping audience.

Next morning the news was generally accepted and a lot of American soldiers were doing a snake dance and singing.

Oskar Howe, for instance, portrays a Sioux war dance and John Nieto describes an Apache snake dance.

The nearly three-hour show was laden with familiar extravagances: grandiose guitar solos, the band's aggressively priapic stage presence, Mr. Rose's multiple costume changes and pliant snake dance.

There you'll find a pair of lovely drawings from around 1917-1918 that feature Hopi Indians performing a ceremonial snake dance.

Later, the judges would remember the young woman for her grace under pressure as well as her elegant performance of a seductive Chinese snake dance during the talent round.

Among the most widespread of these are the dhali, baul, manipuri, and snake dances.

An entire gallery is devoted to his relics of snake dances, the Hopis' prayers for rain.

Walpi is known for an antelope ceremony and for snake dances, held during odd years in August and generally closed to non-Hopi spectators.

Along with Lois de Fee, "Queen of the Glamazons," Betty Rowland, known as the "Ball of Fire," and Zorita, known for her sensuous snake dances, Ms. Britton was one of the last stars of a once-thriving sprinkling of theaters in Times Square (and other spots in Manhattan) where ostrich-feathered fans fell away to reveal sequined pasties, G-strings and sometimes more.

She learned to snake-dance afterwards.