Sentence examples for temple dance from inspiring English sources

The dancing is a hybrid of Hindu temple dance, folk dance, and moves copied from Michael Jackson.

Originally it was a temple dance performed for the gods.

For centuries, much Indian dance was temple dance.

Originally a temple dance for women, bharatanatyam often is used to express Hindu religious stories and devotions.

Like other Indian dances it began as a temple dance, but soon moved into the courts of ruling houses.

Once, when someone pointed him out to her at an oldies temple dance, she recalled thinking, "he was attractive, but I didn't think it would ever work".

Along with temple dances, triumphal marches, a dancing golden idol, and an earthquake, the ballet features the famous "Kingdom of the Shades" scene, an opium dream in which dozens of gauzily dressed ballerinas descend elegiacally, creating a heavenly illusion of infinity.

The outline of a small, ghostly Greek temple dances on the water up front.

Hand and finger movements in temple dances in Indian and other Asian cultures are strictly regulated and have a precise symbolic meaning.

Odissi is a classical form from the eastern state of Odisha, based on ritual temple dances performed by women as early as the first century B.C. Later, in the Mughal period, the dancers served a secular purpose: entertaining the royal court.

The mood that overtakes the others and enthralls the reader is the sensual resignation of Java, where silver leaf monkeys shriek and swing from vine to vine as Mata Hari visits bat caves, shadow plays and erotic temple dances, or slips off to meet a lover.