Is dance religious? The question has always troubled me. For one, the question suggests a yes or no answer when neither is sufficient. Certainly, dancing appears as a major strand of all global ...

David danced before the ark, but that was not “social dancing.” Social dancing has long been viewed by many Christians as dangerous to spiritual health if not actually sinful. The Missouri Synod ...

SIVA, the Creator-Destroyer of Hinduism’s trinity, once stood on a demon and with one of his four arms began to shake a little hand drum. To the beat of this rhythm Siva moved his body, and with his ...

“Revelations” is a particularly programmatic take on religion, but modern dance’s religious dimension goes back to its roots. Martha Graham, who called dancers “acrobats of God” and believed that ...

“Dance can have the same affects as one singing a song,” said choreographer Jamesetta Roach. “It can minister to your soul and spirit. Dance can provide an expression in movement that singing can not.

There’s power in dance. It’s good for mental, physical and spiritual health. But like religion, dancing sometimes requires a leap of faith. “It is through the doing that we become,” Jewish Iraqi ...

Jamesetta Roach, an evangelist, author and choreographer, has opened the doors to her new Christian dance studio, the Divinity Dance Studio of Praise & Fitness, located on campus the Dove Covenant ...

Ever on the lookout for dance-friendly allies in theology and religious studies, I was eager to read Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey Robbin’s new book: Religion, Politics, and the Earth: The New ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The young crowd at a Nashville nightclub was ready to dance under the strobe lights to a throbbing mix of hip-hop, rap and Latin beats. But first they gathered to pray and praise ...

DANCING and architecture are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of architecture is ...