That’s the story told in “Maya Deren: Choreographed for ... and nuclear war became a reality. In 1945, Deren filmed another silent short, “Ritual in Transfigured Time,” the last of her ...

“The Haitian Footage: Maya Deren Unedited,” shown at Anthology Film Archives on Tuesday night, featured film from Deren’s study of dances and rituals captured during visits to ...

Archaeologists hunting for a sacred well beneath the ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula have accidentally discovered a trove of more than 150 ritual objects ...

Such games served not just as athletic events but also religious ones that often involved ritual sacrifices. Archaeologists have now found evidence that the Maya may have blessed newly constructed ...

If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. Maya Deren is a postmortem biographer’s dream subject. Not only did the bohemian dancer, poet, photographer ...

An environmental DNA analysis of soil collected at an ancient Maya ball court reveals that the site was once part of a ritual. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...