Ceremonial dance is a major category or classification of dance forms or dance styles, where the purpose is ceremonial or ritualistic.
This compares to other major dance categories based on purpose:
- - Competitive dance - Erotic dance - Participation dance - Performance dance - Social dance
- Celebration dance
- Festival dance
- Dance in ancient cultures
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
- Classical Indian dances
- Ritual dance, Magic/Mystic/Spiritual dance
- Abbots Bromley Horn Dance
- Some Basque dances
- Căluşari
- Circle dance
- Corroborree
- Dances of Universal Peace
- Long Sword dance
- Morris dance
- Rapper dance
- Religious dance
- Ritual dances of India
- Sema, or Whirling dervish dance
- War dance
- Weapon dance
Famous quotes containing the words ceremonial and/or dance:
“Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I could dance yet—only had a good fiddle—I like music. A good fiddle always starts the Negro, even if he’s old.”
—Sylvia Dubois (1788?–1889)