Church dance

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The term church dance probably appeared for the first time in folklore literature in 1926 and was used as a name for the supposedly ecclesiastical, but actually popular and ecclesiastical forbidden dancing in the church yards and in the entrance halls of the churches in the Middle Ages .

When in the middle of the 20th century some dancers in the USA dared to dance in church rooms to the glory of God, one occasionally spoke of "church dancers" (while the emerging movement or association is called the "Sacred Dance Guild"). Anke Kolster (* 1963), who has spread the term “church dance” in the German-speaking world since the mid-1990s and actually implemented it, was inspired by sacred dance in the USA, but derived the word from the term church music . What these terms have in common is that they are not about a specific style, but about an allocation or localization of such an activity. Song dances, meditative dancing, expressive dance, processional dances, Bible dance theater, etc. are part of church dance, provided they are oriented towards church life.

The terms “sacred dance” or “sacred dance” as synonyms for church dance are not meaningful because initially “ sacred dancing ” includes church dance among other things, e.g. B. also esoteric meditative dancing or neo-pagan ritual dances; Furthermore, one of the most prominent representatives of esoteric meditative dancing, Maria Gabriele Wosien, uses the term “sacred dance” to describe what she does, but differs considerably from the church. Especially in sacred dancing it becomes clear that, at least in Central Europe, sacred activities and sacred rites are no longer shaped by the church alone.

In Germany, Manfred Schnelle was a pioneer in the field of church dance.

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