Name: Dances of Ecstacy
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2003

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Documentary

Release Date

2003

Synopsis

A journey into the mesmerizing world of trance and ecstasy that binds dancers from Manhattan to Morocco. The filmmakers traveled to traditional and modern day rituals around the world to discover the altered-state experience people seek through dance. In these rituals, Whirling Dervishes from Turkey, Orisha Priestesses from Nigeria and Brazil, shaman healers from the Kalahari and dancers in a Gabrielle Roth workshop in New York, pulse to the same beat as thousands of young people at an all-night techno dance party in an Australian forest. The chronicle explores the many levels of trance and discovers what links them together is the human need to connect with a spiritual dimension, a living part of many traditional cultures which modern culture seeks to recapture. It celebrates the universal human experience where rhythm and dance unite us.