- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: INNER TRADITIONS INTL (Dec 31 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0892816058
- ISBN-13: 978-0892816057
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 20.3 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 816 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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- #10 in Books > Arts & Photography > Performing Arts > Dance > Folk
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...includes extensive source notes, bibliography and other resources, such that it could be considered a bible of sacred dance! -- The Midwest Book Review, May 2002
Although a wealth of research is behind the text it is conveyed in a very digestible form. -- Frances Fawkes, The Grapevine Magazine
Exceptional. -- Today's Books, August 2000
Her bibliography and notes are extensive. She doesn't leave hanging the reader who wants to learn more about or participate in sacred dance, but offers several pages of resources. The book is not only a history of women and dance, but a textbook for performing sacred dances. -- Katie Watts, Argus-Courier Online
I don't know of another book like this one-don't miss it. -- Mary K. Greer, Tarot Newletter, Summer 2001
Stewart has provided a multitude of lovely pictures and illustrations to underscore her discovery of the existence of earlier sacred. -- Anne Apynys., Ph.D., Habibi, A Journal for Lovers of Middle Eastern Dance & Arts, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2000
This book is a record of Iris Stewart's search for evidence of the sacred-logically, historically and experientially. -- Dance Magazine, March 2001, Vol. 75, No. 3
This book is the first to explore women's spiritual expression in the study of dance. A wonderful book! -- Catholic Women's NETWORK, January/February 2001
This is a marvelous and unique exploration of women's spirituality through a study of dance. It is beautifully illustrated with inspirational photos of sacred dancers. This is an excellent addition to the study of the many forms and expressions of Women's Spirituality. -- Circle Magazine, Winter 2000/2001
Although a wealth of research is behind the text it is conveyed in a very digestible form. -- Frances Fawkes, The Grapevine Magazine
Exceptional. -- Today's Books, August 2000
Her bibliography and notes are extensive. She doesn't leave hanging the reader who wants to learn more about or participate in sacred dance, but offers several pages of resources. The book is not only a history of women and dance, but a textbook for performing sacred dances. -- Katie Watts, Argus-Courier Online
I don't know of another book like this one-don't miss it. -- Mary K. Greer, Tarot Newletter, Summer 2001
Stewart has provided a multitude of lovely pictures and illustrations to underscore her discovery of the existence of earlier sacred. -- Anne Apynys., Ph.D., Habibi, A Journal for Lovers of Middle Eastern Dance & Arts, Vol. 18, No. 3, 2000
This book is a record of Iris Stewart's search for evidence of the sacred-logically, historically and experientially. -- Dance Magazine, March 2001, Vol. 75, No. 3
This book is the first to explore women's spiritual expression in the study of dance. A wonderful book! -- Catholic Women's NETWORK, January/February 2001
This is a marvelous and unique exploration of women's spirituality through a study of dance. It is beautifully illustrated with inspirational photos of sacred dancers. This is an excellent addition to the study of the many forms and expressions of Women's Spirituality. -- Circle Magazine, Winter 2000/2001
Book Description
Shows how dance, the highest expression of spirituality in cultures and traditions all over the world, is being integrated into the lives of women today. * The first book to explore women's spiritual expression--women's ways--through a study of dance * Investigates how dance came to be excluded from worship, and reveals how dance is once again being brought into spiritual practices. * Includes resources for further instruction in sacred dance.
Today we primarily think of dance as a form of entertainment or as a way to exercise or socialize. There was a time, however, when dance was considered the way to commune with the divine, a part of life's journey, celebrating the seasons and rhythms of the year and the rhythms of our lives. Dance is a language that reunites the body, mind, and soul. While the role of women's sacred dance was most valued in goddess-worshipping cultures where women served as priestesses and healers, dance was once an integral part of religious ritual and ceremonial expression in cultures all over the world, including Judaism and Christianity. In this book the author investigates how dance came to be excluded from worship and reveals how dance is once again being integrated into spiritual practices.
Sacred Woman, Sacred Dance is the first book to explore women's spiritual expression--women's ways--through a study of dance. It describes sacred circles, birth rituals, ecstatic dances, and dances of loss and grief (in groups and individually) that allow women to integrate the movements of faith, healing, and power into their daily life.
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Woman Dance!,
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This is a wonderful book for any woman who is searching to uncover her own hidden "feminine" gifts thorough dance, or for one who is searching out all woman history to re-build her own. Dance has been changed through out the centuries but the core is still present.A book that will expand the beginners understanding of how dance is connected to the spiritual. Much substance.
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Spiritual Dance,
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Ce commentaire est de: Sacred Women Sacred Dance (Paperback)
This book has an unusual approach to the history of dance. It has lovely photos/illustrations, and thorough notations throughout. I recommend ot for its unique approach to dance, but not for its (sometimes suspect) history. It's an interesting book, with a lot of information.I can see using this book as a form of meditation I suppose that's as spiritual as you want it to be. There are interesting ideas here, and women who are exploring the meaning and origin of dance will probably find it a good read. As women's studies (which is one of the subjects this book falls into), it's a little lacking. She doesn't really provide enough hard evidence with some of her theories and interpretations to consider this a scholarly work. Women who are interested in the goddess will also find value in this book. I recommend it as an interesting read, as long as the reader understands that much of what she writes is an interpretation of history, and cobbled together from whatever sources were available. Since much of women's history was never written, interpretation is necessary, of course, but I don't know how much is interpretation and how much is embellishment.
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Dancing With the Universe,
By Terrie (Little Chute, WI USA) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: Sacred Women Sacred Dance (Paperback)
Many years ago when I first realized in a crystalline moment that I was one with the Universe, I was alone in a dew-wet field at sunrise with a very large old tree, and I suddenly and gently percieved that the tree was dancing with the Universe and I allowed myself to join in the dance. Ever since that time dance has been an important part of my spiritual expression and discovery. I am pleased to have come across this wonderful book by Iris J. Stewart because it is a treasure for any dancing soul. It is filled with inspiring illustrations from ancient to modern times of dance as a soulful pursuit of sacred knowledge. The author, herself a dancer, has written beautifully about her own experiences awakening to the spiritual aspects of movement as well as the history and applications of this creative and feminine form of spiritual expression. She introduces the reader to the dancing Goddess and the dancing Priestesses. She introduces us to some of the pioneer dancing divas like Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham and Mata Hari. We meet women from many cultures dancing evocative and colorful prayers to the Goddess. She inspires and invites us to allow ourselves to be moved and to follow that impulse into movement. She shows some of the many applications of the dance in theology, and in the art of healing, expressing lament, and in celebrating the coming of age among other creative uses. She has fresh and moving ideas for creating rites and offers descriptions of dances one can perform for moon rites and labyrinth meditations. She discusses the role of costumes and drumming. There is a brilliant chapter on the Dance of the Elements with lively and clear instructions for each of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. The back of the book has a thorough list of resources that include addresses, phone numbers and websites that are concerned with sacred dance including a list of pilgrimage/study tours. The writing is so interesting and filled with details about the female experience of the sacred that even if one is not particularly interested in dance one will still be enriched by this contact with women for whom it is a part of Life. I recommend it to any woman who wishes to know herself better and to thereby know her sisters better. It is a joyous expression of the feminine vibration and one that should not be missed.
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