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 ...

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“Ecstatic dance? What is that, some kind of stripping?” my friend Helen Oxenberg asked me. “No, that would be exotic dance,” I say, although her confusion is understandable. Judging from the way some ...

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 ...

Amos Gaynes experienced an unexpected spiritual awakening in the middle of a field in the summer of 1999. Around that time, Gaynes had been hanging out at his friend’s farm just outside Asheville, ...