Sentence examples for spiral dance from inspiring English sources

She furthermore published The Spiral Dance: a Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (1979), a book which helped spread Wicca throughout the U.S. Prior to Berger's work, several American researchers working in the field of Pagan studies had separately published investigations of the Pagan community in the United States and the United Kingdom.

Starhawk established herself as a leader of the little-known but activism-inclined pagan community nearly three decades ago with her neo-pagan tome The Spiral Dance, which inspired a nature-based spiritual revival movement with a goal of positive ecological change known by participants as "Reclaiming".

This Maypole was then hung with ribbons which were woven around the pole in the course of a grand-right-and-left spiral dance, intertwining the young men and women in the process; bringing them, binding them, ever closer together sizzling with sexual abandonment.

"When a woman suffers sexual violence, it's a deep violation of her personhood and her integrity on every level," says earth-based spiritual leader Starhawk, a global justice activist and author of books including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess.

After an atmospheric episode, the piece broke into a spiraling dance, sometimes crazed, sometimes delicate with gossamer textures.

Yet the Arabic elements of his style — microtonal modes, spiraling dance rhythms, plaintive melodic writing — give fresh, distinctive jolts to the Western elements.

Anthony Tommasini of The New York Times called Sumeida's Song "an intensely dramatic 60-minute four-character opera with a searing score…The Arabic elements of his style – microtonal modes, spiraling dance rhythms, plaintive melodic writing – give fresh, distinctive jolts to the Western elements".

But there is delicacy to the walks, trots and spirals, danced with a matter-of-factness that somehow makes them art.

Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly commented that the "spiraling dance-floor siren" persona Rihanna adopted on the lead single from Loud, "Only Girl (In the World)", was carried through onto "Complicated".

Realistic scenes spiral into tentative modern dances that undermine their authenticity.

All are submerged deep within the contemporary-looking work, revealing themselves largely in rhythm and fleeting gesture — a skipping English country dance, a spiralling shape to suggest Maori wood carving.