Performance and Ritual
PERFORMANCE AND RITUAL. Theater, dance, drama, dance drama, dance theater, and similar activities known by other terms that vary according to language and historical circumstanc...
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On the day she is to become a woman, Monica Reyes sits in front of the church for Mass. Her white dress — sewn in her mother's Mexican hometown — spills over her chair like an oversized...
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Johannesburg (dpa) - At least 50 suspected cases of ritual murder
have been noted in South Africa's far northern Limpopo Province,
according to a report released on Thursday...
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A public school principal accused of paying a woman to sprinkle chicken blood on the high school in an attempt to cleanse it of negative energy will be fired, the Department of Education said Tuesd...
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Some students at the University of Pennsylvania have eagerly waited for three years to be pelted with flour, eggs, ketchup and mustard.They'll have to settle for streamers and marshmallows.That was...
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As morning breaks over the rolling green cane fields, the 19-year-old sugar cane cutter takes an herbal bath and offers a prayer to indigenous and African spirits before transforming himself into s...
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Worshippers filled Christianity's most revered church on Saturday, lighting rows of candles, dripping hot wax on their faces and dancing in celebration of the Orthodox Easter 'holy fire' ritual.Ort...
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In Rome, breaking the chains of love requires a hacksaw _ literally.Sweethearts in the Italian capital have adopted a new ritual as a symbol of undying love: hanging a padlock on a lamppost on the ...
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Two more firefighters are dead, and once again the rituals of public bereavement are playing out in front of the brick firehouse in Greenwich Village, where a brass plaque lists the names of 11 men...
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Amid the chrome and beech decor of the Henry J Beans cocktail bar, a time-honored tradition is being played out over a lunchtime drink: Dozens of drinkers are buying rounds for friends an...
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The locals come down from the mountains drunk, dancing and ready to fight. The police come to make sure no one dies. And the tourists, reporters, and documentary filmmakers come for the blood.The o...
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Performance and Ritual
Quinceanera ritual divides Catholics
