Sentences with phrase «haitian voodoo»

Deren's interest in trance, dance and Haitian voodoo, led her to develop a specific body of work defined as «ethnographic surrealism,» aiming at blurring the boundaries between performance, ritual and the real world, and incorporating the primitive and magic worldview within the very film process.

But it also has a dynamic black spirituality with connections to the Afro - Cuban voodoo practices in which a woman, in a state of spiritual possession by the orisha (or saint), is said to be ridden by the orisha like a horse; the surrealist film maker Maya Deren actually documented a Haitian voodoo rite of this kind in «The Divine Horsemen» (1947 - 51).

For Thomas, the rhinestones evoke folk art traditions and Haitian voodoo art.

The beading, actually rhinestones, first entered my work through my fascination with Haitian voodoo flags while I was studying at Yale.

In Haitian voodoo, African - origin deities «walk with» the Virgin Mary or another Christian saint, the venerated person having two cultural sides.

Not exact matches

Haitian evangelicals reject voodoo out of hand, while some Mexican Pentecostal services feature mariachi bands and images of the Virgin.

But because such religions are inextricably mixed with Christian traditions — most Haitians, for example, are located somewhere on a voodoo - Catholic continuum — the number of Christians is not at the same time overestimated.

The addition of a little Haitian Rum turns regular jerk into Voodoo Jerk Chicken, appropriate for the post-Halloween, Day of the Dead or All Soul's Day feast and always a crowd pleaser around here.

Davis stepped off the Haitian coast directly into a deal for what would become a best - selling book about voodoo culture, The Serpent and the Rainbow.

One of the most convincing elements in the movie is the way the more «modern» Haitians nevertheless regard voodoo as something not to be taken lightly.

Ruba, a teenager in civil - rights - era Mississippi, uses the voodoo skills her Haitian grandmother taught her to fight the devastation of Hurricane Camille.

Your lieutenants are Vito Scalleta a made man from Mafia II, Cassandra who runs the gang of Haitians from her voodoo shop, and Thomas Burke who runs the Irish mob.

Vibrant Haitian Art Vanishes in the Dust Lesley Clark / The Miami Herald January 25, 2010 Men walk past a mural of voodoo representations of death in Port - au - Prince, Haiti, on Wednesday, January 20, 2010.