Ritual Dances

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:

    “We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, and is an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Tommy is three and when he’s bad
    his mother dances with him.
    She puts on the record,
    “Red Roses for a Blue Lady”
    and throws him across the room.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)