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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORT ANGELES — Shelly Zollman will present the Joy of Movement at Ecstatic Dance on Sunday. The introduction to Ecstatic Dance will be at Studio Bob, 118½ E. Front St., Port Angeles. Admission is $5 ...

When Jen “Jen Who Plays the Gong” Ryan of Douglassville, owner of White Wave Restorations, and Roberta “Kick Stranger” Moran of Phoenixville, who has a YouTube channel featuring her hobby as a ...

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 ...

Growing up as a dancer, Jenna Stewart recalls that dance wasn’t “something I did, it was how I processed the world.” But somewhere along the way into adulthood, “without realizing it, I slowly lost my ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — On Friday, Emergence Movement & Wellness hosted their last Ecstatic Dance Party, prior to closing their doors for good. Ecstatic dance parties are completely alcohol-free, instead ...

Spas, fitness clubs and yoga practices all contribute greatly to health, but there is an array of alternative wellness experiences in Charleston to explore. The Holy City healing arts scene is vibrant ...

I leap across the floor, launching off one foot and landing on the other as I roll myself into a ball, withdrawing inward. I haven’t done ballet since I was a child, and this feels like a stage of a ...