The Event: Global Water Dances Initiative “Dancing for Safe Water Everywhere” The Sacred Dance Guild is inviting all of its members to join in this world-wide dance event. Since 2013, will be a non-festival year, here is a wonderful opportunity…
Sacred Dance Guild Journal
Since 1958 articles by members & guests offer news about activities, history, Sacred Dance practices, profiles of Sacred Dancers, choreography, images & illustrations.
Yearly Archives: 2012
Sacred Waters, Sacred Dances 2013
Tagged with: Choreography, Dance, Drinking water, Performing Arts
Posted in Dance, Sacred Dance, World Dance
Posted in Dance, Sacred Dance, World Dance
Festival 2012 “Flash Mob Dance” by Elaine Sisler
On Thursday, July 26, 2012, Mary Kamp and I led one hundred festival dancers in a flash mob dance in downtown Holland Michigan. This spirited event was a benefit for the “Center for Women in Transition” and the Sacred Dance Guild. As we milled…
Tagged with: Art, Dance, Flashmob, Lionel Richie, Michigan, Performing Arts, Sacred dance
Posted in Dance, Flash Mob
Posted in Dance, Flash Mob
Magical Moments by JoyBeth Lufty
What I love most about SDG’s Festivals are the magical moments when the movement and the community create deep connections of all kinds that wouldn’t have been made on their own. There were plenty of magical moments at Festival 2012 “Dance A World Of…
Historic Notes Fall 2012 by Toní Intravaia
Historic Notes by Toní Intravaia From the Sacred Dance Guild Newsletter Fall 1957, Volume 9, Number 1 Praise the Lord with Dance by Pixie Hamond “Praise the Lord with the dance” is more than a scripture verse to many dance…
Tagged with: Holy Spirit, Hound of Heaven, Isadora Duncan, Margaret Taylor, Ruth St Denis, Southern California, Ted Shawn
Posted in Choreography, Religious dance, Sacred Dance
Posted in Choreography, Religious dance, Sacred Dance
Body Prayer: Praying with Your Whole Being by JoyBeth Lufty
There are various types of Body Prayers from the complex to the simple, from different traditions, and for exploring different themes. All have in them the common form of movement, rhythm, and repetition oriented towards connecting with The Divine. In this issue…
Tagged with: Alternative, Board of directors, Dance, Divine, Energy Healing, God, Health, Jesu, JoyBeth, Love, Prayer, SDG, Soul Integrators
Posted in Body Prayer, Sacred Dance
Posted in Body Prayer, Sacred Dance
Culture Fest – 2012 A Multi-Cultural Dance Concert
A Benefit Concert for “Dancers ” in Armenia & Croatia Sponsored by The Sacred Dance Guild & the North East Dance Retailers Association We did it again! Seven different dance groups from the Boston area gathered to perform in the…
Tagged with: Armenia, Arts, Christian Worship, Earth, Performing Arts, Prayer, Sacred dance
Posted in Art, Dance, Drama, Global OutReach, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, World Dance
Posted in Art, Dance, Drama, Global OutReach, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, World Dance
The Power of Sacred Dance By Kathryn Mihelick
The following is an excerpt from my chapter in the book, Dancing on the Earth The capacity for dances of the spirit to impact those who witness it was revealed in a recent experience of our Leaven Dance Company. It…
Tagged with: Art, Dance Notation Bureau, Earth, Helen Tamiris, New York, Performing Arts, Scotland
Posted in Dance, Liturgical dance, Religious dance, Sacred Dance
Posted in Dance, Liturgical dance, Religious dance, Sacred Dance
Persian Dance- in Perspective The Non-Persian Perspective
You’re a Persian dancer? Oh- so you do belly dance?” “What kind of dance do you do? Persian? Oh I know a bit of Persian dance! I took a belly dance class at the YMCA last year!” “I love Persian…
Tagged with: Afghanistan, Belly dance, Iran, Middle East, Persian dance, Persian language
Posted in Dance, Sacred Dance, World Dance
Posted in Dance, Sacred Dance, World Dance
Body Prayer: We are the Hope by JoyBeth Lufty
BODY PRAYER: PRAYING WITH YOUR WHOLE BEING by JoyBeth Lufty We Are The HOPE…” Body Prayers often have themes or focused intentions, as well has having a common form of movement, rhythm and repetition all oriented towards connecting with The…
Tagged with: Art, Circle dance, Dance, God, Line dance, Michigan, Performing Arts, Prayer
Posted in Body Prayer, Circle Dance, Dance, World Dance
Posted in Body Prayer, Circle Dance, Dance, World Dance
Historic Notes Spring 2012 by Toní Intravaia
From the Sacred Dance Guild Newsletter Fall 1975, Volume 19, Number 1 The Significance of Religion in the Dance by Wincie Ann Carruth It is necessary to formulate a definition of religion. Havelock Ellis says that the quintessential core of…
Tagged with: Alvin Ailey, Black Church, Havelock Ellis, Joe Nash, Performing Arts, Sacred dance, Talley Beatty
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, World Dance
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, World Dance
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