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Ecstatic dance
🔗 wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstatic_da

"Ecstatic dance is a form of dance in which the dancers, sometimes without the need to follow specific steps, abandon themselves to the rhythm & move freely as the music takes them, leading to trance and a feeling of ecstasy …

… shamanism's ecstatic dance and rhythmic drumming are used to alter consciousness in spiritual practices. Ecstatic sacred dances are known also from religious traditions around the world …"
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WikiCommons historic B&W photo shows a young woman (Grete Wiesenthal?) wearing a long black dress down to her ankles. She is smiling and in an extreme dancing position, leaning far back with her long dark hair reaching down toward the ground. One of her legs, in open dance shoes, is kicking up into the air. English: Title: Grete Wiesenthal (Donauwalzer) Abstract/medium: Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942. Physical description: 1 slide : Date between 1896 and 1942 Library of Congress Catalog: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/agc1996000019/PP Original url: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/agc.7a09891 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grete_Wiesenthal_(Donauwalzer)_LOC_agc.7a09891_(cropped).jpg
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Wikipedia caption: "Ecstatic tantric union, Yuan dynasty, 14th century. Modern ecstatic dance sometimes incorporates elements of tantra." WikiCommons images shows a 14th century stylized graphical painting in muted colors of two entangled dancing figures. One is apparently male, larger, has three eyes, and is in blue. The other, apparently female, is in dark brown. "Mahamaya from Cave 465, Dunhuang. Yuan dynasty, 14th century." https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Tantric_image_from_Cave_465,_Dunhuang._Yuan_dynasty._(detail).jpg
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