Sentence examples for stage rituals from inspiring English sources

When Pina Bausch choreographed Iphigenie auf Tauris in 1974, her work was still visibly shaped by her early years in mainstream modern dance: she wasn't yet fully committed to the text, props and stage rituals that would become her trademark Tanztheater tools.

At this stage, rituals were devised to mitigate the dark moods of nature, analogous to how a weaker person might pacify a stronger one with gifts, stories, or entertainments.

It was primarily a response to the emerging need for organizational arrangements to stage rituals and make offerings related to developing agriculture, as well as for establishing organizations with a specifically Balinese identity.

When Liszt did his solo acts, there was none of the march-on, march-off stage ritual of today.

Monday reminds us – and that reminder is a salve – that democratic parliaments can be powerful when they position themselves with their communities, rather than walling themselves off, and pitting themselves relentlessly against each other, and the interests of the people, in staged rituals that amplify the dislocation.

The Creators Project spoke with the four artists-turned-performers about their pre-stage rituals, the role of gender in artistic practice, and the importance of bringing comedy to the stage, especially as a female.

What's your pre-stage ritual?

Isis units, including fighters who have returned from Syria, have already taken control of the coastal town of Derna, proclaiming it an Islamic caliphate and staging ritual executions.

But the media-dictated choreography of the announcement - a brief sputter of TV lights, a short spot on Channel 4, then the waiting cameras and questions - did make the whole thing feel curiously empty, a clinically staged ritual meant to seem important but whose point had somehow been lost en route.

There's an appropriate sense of on-stage ritual for a piece that is subtitled "a ceremony for 14 musicians", and was written in memory of Michael Vyner, but there's Birtwistle's violence and energy here too, as you'll hear.

These people hold demonstrations, painting themselves and staging ritual dramas using traditional ideas of avatars as well as from the movie "Avatar" to publicize their cause.