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Finding the Sacred in Nia Dance By Hiie Saumaa
Tagged with: Nia dance
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, modern dance, moving meditation, Nia dance, Sacred Dance
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, modern dance, moving meditation, Nia dance, Sacred Dance
Glory Brighter Than Burning Napalm: Dance in the Face of Violence By Sister Martha Ann Kirk, Th.D
Glory Brighter Than Burning Napalm: Dance in the Face of Violence By Sister Martha Ann Kirk, Th.D. As the world mourns the death of Father Daniel Berrigan, SJ, priest, poet, and prophet of peace, let us remember that Carla De…
Tagged with: Art, Carla Desola, Christian Worship, Christianity, Dance, Divine, Dorothy Day, God, Jeannette Rankin, Performing Arts, Prayer, Religion and Spirituality, Sacred dance, SDG, United States
Posted in Choreography, Dance, Drama, Historic Notes, Liturgical dance, modern dance, Religious dance, Sacred Dance
Posted in Choreography, Dance, Drama, Historic Notes, Liturgical dance, modern dance, Religious dance, Sacred Dance
Historic Notes by Toni’ Intrvaia Fall 2013
From the Sacred Dance Guild Journal, Winter 1982-1983 Volume XXV, Number 2 The Jewish Dance Mystique by Evelyn Helper “..In the secular, as well as the religious regimen of the Chassidic community, dance became an indispensable part of any gathering.…
Tagged with: Dance, Duke Memorial United Methodist Church, Performing Arts, Religious music
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, Liturgical dance, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, World Dance
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, Liturgical dance, Religious dance, Sacred 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
Historical Note Fall 2011
From the Sacred Dance Guild’s Newsletter Winter 1978, Volume XV, No 2 “Calling” from Lotus Light by Ruth St. Denis The Gods have meant That I should dance, And by the Gods I will! For in some mystic hour…
Tagged with: Alexander Schuster, Leonard Bernstein, Ruth St Denis, Ted Shawn
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes
Catholics Can’t Dance? By Kathryn Mihelick
Some of you may recall my effort to get the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to affirm the use of dance as an appropriate, desirable, and affective form for worship. This effort began in 2001 and is still…
Tagged with: Bishop, Catholic, Catholic Church, Notitiae, Position Paper, United States, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, USCCB
Posted in Art, Body Prayer, Dance, Historic Notes, Liturgical dance, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, World Dance
Posted in Art, Body Prayer, Dance, Historic Notes, Liturgical dance, Religious dance, Sacred Dance, World Dance
Historical Notes Spring 2011 by Toni Intravaia
A Time for Sacred Dance by Ruth Rayton: “Dance, the response of man to life-meanings, is one of the most basic expressions of the total person. Paul Tillich has said, ‘Religion is man’s total response to his creator. The sacred…
Tagged with: Paul Tillich, Performing Arts, University of New Hampshire, William Norman Guthrie
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, Religious dance, World Dance
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, Religious dance, World Dance
Historic Notes by Toní Intravaia
From the Sacred Dance Guild Newsletter, Volume I, Fall 1958 I Demand of the Dance by Jean Miller: “I demand of the Dance—more than any of the other arts—that it reveals the God in man. Not merely the scientific and…
DID YOU KNOW? by Pamela White
The first time the term “dance” appears in the Bible is in Judges 21:21 And see, and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come you out of the vineyards, and catch you every…
Tagged with: bible, Christian Worship, Christianity, Circle dance, Dance, Divine, God, Prayer, Sacred dance
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, Liturgical dance, Religious dance, World Dance
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, Liturgical dance, Religious dance, World Dance
Historic Notes by Toní Intravaia May 1958
Ted Shawn says: ”the duty of the artist is to shed light into the darkness of men’s souls. Feel always that a charge is laid upon you—to send your audience away uplifted, joyous, stimulated to create, given courage to face burdens daily. And…
Tagged with: Christian Worship, Christianity, Dance, Erika Thimmey, God, light into the darkness, Sacred dance, soul, Ted Shawn, Theodore Parke, Zarathustra
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, Liturgical dance, Religious dance, Sacred Dance
Posted in Dance, Historic Notes, Liturgical dance, Religious dance, Sacred Dance
