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 ...

Soft Cell are reissuing their groundbreaking 1982 remix album Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing on June 20. The reissue features the original album remastered and the original extended versions of “Torch” and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

A six-day festival, the first of its kind in Cyprus, really encourages participants to let their hair down. ELENI PHILIPPOU finds out more Dance until you drop, dance until all tension is lost, dance ...

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 ...

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 ...