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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The dragon, a sacred mythical creature in Chinese culture, is often the protagonist in festivities and rituals. Dragon dances have ... has been hosting fire dragon dance shows every year during ...

Wearing the face of Patih Manis (above), a character in Bali’s dance dramas ... arts—and a dancer for seven decades. “You must ‘marry’ that mask and make ritual offerings to create ...

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 ...

SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia — In the high altitude Bolivian town of San Pedro de Macha, hundreds of Indigenous Quechua men and women take to the streets for a ritual dance and combat known as ...