Metropolitan Arseniy of Sliven has openly condemned the Nestinarian ritual, urging Bulgarian priests and believers not to ...

Three dancers dance to three pieces of classical music in animated, virtual environments - invoking the element Water. The music they dance to includes Manuel de Falla’s Ritual Fire Dance ...

Asharq Al Awsat Under a cloud of incense smoke, a group of men and women in a village in northern Greece swayed slowly to the music before removing their shoes and rushing, barefoot, onto waiting ...

Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go into a music-induced trance and dance on bonfires in a ...

Named for the pair of iron rods each dancer wields in his right hand, the scissors dance is traditionally performed by men from Quechua villages in south-central Peru. The ritual is a form of ...

Barefoot dancers pulsated to the beat in colorful ... In the past, the mere sight of members of the group performing the Gule Wamkulu ritual dance would have sent shivers down the spine of many ...