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 ritual and/or dances:
“A few years later, I would have answered, “I never repeat anything.” That is the ritual phrase of society people, by which the gossip is reassured every time.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“We have dancing ... from soon after sundown until a few minutes after nine o’clock.... Occasionally the boys who play the female partners in the dances exercise their ingenuity in dressing to look as girlish as possible. In the absence of lady duds they use leaves, and the leaf-clad beauties often look very pretty and always odd enough.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)