This gives a whole new meaning to liturgical dance :)

Speaking of Hozier, photographer David LaChapelle captures Ukrainian ballet dancer Sergei Polunin performing Hozier's Grammy nominated song, Take Me to Church (see video below).

Sergei Polunin dances with his demons to Hozier's Take Me to Church ...

When Take Me to Church was released in 2013, with Brendan Canty and Conal Thomson’s graphically angry protest video, Hozier’s hit song span off into a worldwide anthem for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
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Now another video interpretation of the Hozier song has appeared online, and it too is going viral. If there’s a political message to David LaChapelle’s film of Sergei Polunin dancing alone in an empty barn, it’s a deliberately oblique one. But Polunin, a Ukrainian dancer who is now working principally in Russia and who has struggled very publicly in the search for his professional and personal identity, brings a story of his own to Hozier’s song.

This solo is far from showing Polunin at his extraordinary best. Jade Hale-Christofi’s choreography is burdened with hackneyed, head-clutching emoting and, atmospheric though the venue is, it’s a constricted space. Yet LaChapelle’s filming creates its own striking chemistry with Polunin, portraying him nakedly, poignantly alone with himself. His numerous tattoos – usually covered with stage makeup – are proudly on display, his dancer’s tights are symbolically torn. And in the huge body-wracking shifts from floor-hugging crouches to airborne leaps, Polunin does seem to bring to his dancing the demons of his difficult life ...