I learned of “ecstatic dance” after a balmy yoga class overlooking the morning waves on Tulum Beach, where two local dogs wove between our legs and the air smelled of salt and peppermint oil. “Let’s ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — On an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday evening, I found myself facing a stranger, swinging my arms back and forth, and hooting like an owl. “HOOOOOO!” I yelled, blinking uncomfortably.

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.

The philosophy of dance is so much more than rhythmically moving your body to music. It’s a form of cultural and social communication. Some people dance simply for the exercise, while others do it as ...

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 ...

LET IT OUT: Expressive movement is a prominent and growing phenomenon in Asheville. “If you're sad, dance that sadness. If you're angry, dance the anger,” says Asheville Movement Collective member ...

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 ...

The only real rule of ecstatic dancing is to achieve ecstasy. You let your body free and listen to the music within you to dance to it, enjoy and feel the pleasure at every second of it. The motive is ...

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 ...