Crescent Moon Dance from Balqis, Queen of Sheba M. Burchard
From Scene One of the opera-in-progress Balqis, Queen of Sheba, part of the Sophia Opera Cycle project that follows the evolution of the Divine Feminine through the ages, using the seven cultural epochs of Rudolf Steiner as an overarching structure. The first of these operas, The Descent of Inanna, also composed by Marcia Burchard, was performed in 2005 at Dominican University. In this scene, Balqis, Queen of Sheba gathers 12 women around her and dances a sacred temple dance to the crescent ...
