The Sacred Dance Guild is dedicated to dance as spiritual
expression for:
Enrichment of personal devotion and prayer.
Connectedness within the community at worship.
Acceptance and Expansion of relationships with God and
others.
Disciplined Growth of the whole person: mind, body,
and spirit.
Creative Discoveries within the art form and in its
relevance to the other arts in religion.
Religious Education for increased interfaith understanding.
Benefits to Individuals Who Join the Sacred Dance
Guild:
- Sacred Dance Guild Journal published three times
a year.
- Membership Directory with geographical and leadership
listings printed annually, plus a password which allows
members to access an online membership directory and
update their own data.
- Calendar of Events published in the Journal and
online with regional, national, and international
activities.
- Membership in your Chapter (if applicable) and Region
with local events and activities.
- Reduced Fees at the International Festival held
in different locations within the United States.
- Reduced Fees at Guild workshops and those of affiliated
organizations.
- Reduced Cost for all Guild publications.
- Opportunity to be listed as a resource in the Online
Resource Database.
- Opportunity to create your own website to be linked
to the SDG website.
- Ability to sign up for email reminders for events
listed on SDG Event Calendars.
- Opportunity to be a part of the All Members elist
where sacred dance issues, concerns, and ideas are
shared among members from all over the world, as well
as elists for particular religious or dance form groups
as we create them.
Benefits to Groups Who Join the Sacred Dance Guild:
- Receive two copies of each issue of the Journal.
- Four members of each group may attend the International
Festivals at the member discount.
- Receive two votes in Guild elections.
- Group can have a website on the Guild site, with
a calendar.
- Group can be listed in Resource Database.
- If the Groups are willing to list their members
on our database, they can use our database to manage
their membership, print labels, send email, keep information
on contacts, etc. This requires having someone learn
how to do it, just as the Chapters and Regions need
someone to help, but it is easy and we provide lots
of help.
- Four individual members of groups can be listed
in our printed directory, and all can be in, and see,
our online directory. The Group is also listed in
both directories.
- Listed members of groups can have most of the website
privileges: can get email reminders of events, and
see all "members only" places on website.
- They can be listed on the “All Members”
elist, as well as elists for particular religious
or dance form groups as we create them.
Opportunities are provided for:
Sharing fellowship
Demonstrating leadership
Refining dance technique
Creating dances within liturgies and worship services
Participating in an international network linking persons
of many faiths.
Reciprocal Affiliations
The Sacred Dance Guild has collegial status with the
following organizations. This is a reciprocal agreement
whereby members of the Guild may attend activities of
these organizations at the same fee their own members
pay (proof of SDG membership is required). Members of
these organizations may attend Guild activities in the
same way.
American Dance Guild P.O. Box 2006 Lenox Hill Station
New York, NY 10021 International Association for Creative
Dance (IACD) 103 Princeton Ave. Providence, RI 02907
www.dancecreative.org National Dance Association, American
Alliance for Health, Physical Education,Recreation and
Dance 1900 Association Drive Reston, VA 22091 (703)
476-3436 ILDA/NPM (International Liturgical Dance Association/
National Association of Pastoral Musicians) c/o Gloria
Weyman 3215 Bellacre Ct Cincinnati, OH 45211 |
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