In theory, ecstatic dance sounds like a lot: I’m in a room full of strangers, listening to music I wouldn’t typically listen to, freely moving my uncoordinated limbs in what can barely be described as ...
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 ...
A few times a month, a group of Charlestonians gather together to dance. Most of these events are held at the St. Julian Devine Center downtown — others events are pop-up dance parties on the beach or ...
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 ...
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 ...