DANCE AS WORSHIP Carolyn Deitering, in her book on liturgical dance, explains how the dances of praise lead us into the dances of worship. She says, “The dancer is the dance is the joy. Hence, if a dancer is responding to God, he or she, simply by dancing, enters into a communion with the deity and manifests a worshipful response: the dance is the worship.”2 The glorious joy of praise helps us to release the weight of our personal circumstances in order to come to God with all of our heart, soul,
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