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Sacred dance

Dance that is offered, prayed or performed as rite. Each tradition is described as those who keep it would describe it.

HinduTemple dance, devotional dance-dramas and the dances of the festivals.173 BuddhistMonastery mask dances, offerings and festival dances.37 ChristianSaints' day processions, liturgical dance and carnival before Lent.55 MuslimThe turning of the Sufi orders and the dances of the feast days.32 JewishDancing with the Torah, wedding dances and Hasidic dance.8 SikhMartial display and the dances of Vaisakhi.3 ShintoKagura and the dances offered at shrines.9 Indigenous and ancestralCeremonial dances of first peoples, and spirit and ancestor traditions.135 Other traditionsTaoist, Zoroastrian, Afro-Atlantic and folk religious traditions.10

The weekly round

Every Monday: seven dances you may not know, what the world is dancing this week, and one way of dancing explained.