As someone who’s been into interpretive dancing since I was a kid, I couldn’t stop myself from trying ecstatic dance — a fun, cathartic movement trend I spotted on TikTok, where it has over 20 million ...

Ye-ow. As I sit down to write this, my thigh muscles are screaming. Last night, for a sweaty hour and a half I was twirling, swaying, reaching, wiggling, shaking, flapping, and moving my body into ...

The stars. That's what Karen Bond remembers most from her first ecstatic dance experience on a farm in Wales in the 1980s. She also remembers the drumming, chanting and, of course, the dancing that ...

Have you ever heard of Ecstatic Dance? Well, if not, you may be hearing about it soon. A new form of dance event, created in Hawaii, has taken firm root in the San Francisco Bay area in California.

Tucked away on the corner of Indianola and East Maynard avenues, a quiet church sits alongside the road. After dark, however, the church transforms into a mystical dance space. Called the Church of ...

Go back to your middle school dance. See the gym with the basketball hoops, the bowl of red mystery punch, hear the DJ wicka-wicka-wicka scratching records. Now imagine the chaperones taking over the ...

In a room filled with morning sunlight, dancers move without inhibition to a constant flow of rhythmic music. There is no routine to follow, no specific movements, no socks or shoes and no talking.

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The stars. That’s what Karen Bond remembers most from her first ecstatic dance experience on a farm in Wales in the 1980s. She also remembers the drumming, chanting and, of course, the dancing that ...