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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe it was something about the phrase “free-form movement in a judgment-free space.” By Ellie Shechet On an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday evening, I found myself facing a stranger, swinging my arms ...

Dr Peter Lovatt, a dance psychologist once famously said that 'Humans are born to dance and if you are a human, you can dance'. True! But then, something gets in the way of that or something just ...