Sacred Dance: Encounter with the Gods, by Maria-Grabiele Wosien

Sacred Dance: Encounter with the Gods, by Maria-Grabiele Wosien. 1974 softcover. 128 pages, very nice condition.

Creation is movement, and the sacred dance arises from the need to identify with the eternal round of the creative forces in the cosmos. Dancing intensifies awareness, so the dancer begins to understand how the universe is made up of infinite patterns of motion around a still center. A primordial element of religious tradition, all over the world, the dance was a vital part of early Christian worship, and survives in the whirling, orbiting movements of the Dervishes of Turkey. In images ranging from Botticelli’s dancing angels to the dance patterns of the South Seas, this book evokes one of man’s oldest and most profound impulses – to act out the movements of the powers that he senses within himself and within the world.