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Dance was her Religion
Language: en
Pages: 204
Authors: Janet Lynn Roseman. Ph.D.
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-18 - Publisher: SCB Distributors

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Three dancers who changed the face of Modern Dance and liberated dancers from ballet’s rigidity to glorify the human body as a scared vessel: Isadora Duncan,
Devotional Hindu Dance
Language: en
Pages: 136
Authors: Sabrina D. MisirHiralall
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-04-07 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This book sheds light on the purpose of Hindu dance as devotional. Dr. Sabrina D. MisirHiralall explains the history of Hindu dance and how colonization caused
Dance Spreads Its Wings
Language: en
Pages: 544
Authors: Ruth Eshel
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-25 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Why did dance and dancing became important to the construction of a new, modern, Jewish/Israeli cultural identity in the newly formed nation of Israel? There we
Dance as Third Space
Language: en
Pages: 421
Authors: Heike Walz
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-12-06 - Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

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Dance plays an important role in many religious traditions, in rites of passage, processions, healing rituals or festivals. But it is also controversial, especi
Ringleaders of Redemption
Language: en
Pages: 395
Authors: Kathryn Dickason
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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In popular thought, Christianity is often figured as being opposed to dance. Conventional scholarship traces this controversy back to the Middle Ages. Throughou