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  Dance of the seven veils: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Salomé, like dismas, or the various names of the three magi, is a name given to a character in the bible whose name is not given in the bible itself....
The most famous music for the "Dance of the Seven Veils" comes from near the climax of the opera.
A striptease is a performance, usually a dance, in which the performer gradually removes their clothing for the purposes of sexually arousing the audience,...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/dance_of_the_seven_veils.htm   (1093 words)

  
 StreetSwing's Dance History Archives - Mime / Pantomime Dance Page - Main1
It is said that the first origin of dancing, is the mention of the >Maneros, which was a slow rhythmical song accompanied by the distinct movements and phases of a regular dance mime.
The oldest of these dance dramas was called the ">Delian Dance of the Labyrinth, or the >Flight of the Cranes," and was said to have been introduced by Theseus, King of Athens.
These stage dances were the earliest representations of the pantomime version which has since been brought to such great perfection thru the ballet stage.
www.streetswing.com /histmain/z3mime.htm   (1127 words)

  
 The Bessies
She has lectured at the Royal Academies of Dance in London, Stockholm and Copenhagen, the Festival Estival in Paris, the Society for Early Music in Tokyo, the Juilliard School, and New York University, and has served as consultant to Clark Tippet of American Ballet Theater and Edward Villella of the Miami City Ballet.
He began his dance training under the direction of Bernard Spriggs at the District of Columbia City Ballet in 1977 and continued at the Washington School of Ballet with Mary Day and Alastair Munro and at the School of American Ballet with Stanley Willliams and Andre Kramarevski.
She danced with the first fl dance company in the U.S.; choreographed and performed in over a dozen major Hollywood films; founded the acclaimed Katherine Dunham Dance Company, which toured over 60 countries; authored eight books; and served as cultural advisor to the President and Minister of Cultural Affairs of Senegal.
www.dtw.org /bes_bios_01.cfm   (6167 words)

  
 Llewellyn Encyclopedia
Absent Healing: A technique by which a healer is able to help a person although that person is not present.
The objective of alchemy is the uncovering of this inner wisdom, and the removal of the veils and obstacles between the mind and its intrinsically pure divine source.
She lives in the Asheville area of North Carolina with her beloved husband, Draven, and an abundance of feline and serpentine companions.
www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /glossary.php   (6867 words)

  
 Padre Engo-Spirits
Its occult significance shows in what manner the number 666 is "the number of a man", for the seven heads represent the seven stations of the Pole Star, each of which "fell", or sank down, at vast periodic intervals, the entire process taking 26,000 years to complete.
The seven heads of the beast were typified by various images that had their earthly prototypes as symbols of magical power.
Similarly, the Beast with Seven Heads achieves his apotheosis in the eight fold power name Baphomet, the glyph of the androgyne which conceals the secret formula of Change through sexual polarity in human form; this is the formula of sexual magick based on atavistic resurgence.
www.padreengo.com /html/spirits.html   (4005 words)

  
 Personifications of Death
From Islamic teachings, it is written that "when Michael, Gabriel and Israfel failed to provide seven handfuls of earth for the creation of Adam, the 4th angel on this mission, Azrael, succeeded, and because of this feat, he was appointed to separate body from soul".
Goddess of storms, hurricanes, radical change and Death, she is portrayed as a whirlwind who literally rips away the veil between this world and the next.
Wearing grass skirts or costumes of multi-coloured rags, she is a fierce and steadfast guardian of the cemetery, particularly over the souls of women.
www.westgatenecromantic.com /historical.htm   (5857 words)

  
 Excessive Candour
What we see at the beginning of most horror stories is absolutely not what is going to be gotten when the veils are torn off.
What we see in the beginning is that which has escaped—or never consciously met—the underlying reality of things, a reality which, in the genre of horror, usually comes at you from ago, from behind, from beneath.
As it is (I've hardly touched on the richness of these opening pages) it is the Dance of the Seven Veils of Mini Me.
www.scifi.com /sfw/issue309/excess.html   (1070 words)

  
 Wurlitzer 165 catalog, Appendix
They were still cased in natural oak still, but with ornately carved and decorated facades, with few or no brass trumpets, being more softly voiced for use in dance halls and carousels as well as skating rinks, and they were played by perforated dry-waxed paper rolls instead of pinned cylinders.
At about the same time Wurlitzer standardized its roll system so that all its band organs could be played by one of three roll styles: the 125 roll, the 150 roll, or the 165 roll.
Dance With A Dolly (With A Hole In Her Stockin') (Mar 18, 1940) FT There Goes That Song Again (Sep 27, 1944) FT Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's An Irish Lullaby) (Jul 14, 1913) FT Down In The Valley (traditional) W
www.wurlitzer-rolls.com /appendix.html   (6573 words)

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