“Every dance is and gives ecstasy.”
- Curt Sachs
Needing a natural ‘high’, dance is the answer. To enter a state of ecstasy we need to give up all forms of dance with specific steps or instructions that engage our minds. When we abandon ourselves to the rhythm and move freely as the music takes us we cross over the threshold of action and control and enter the blissful state of just being.
From a scientific perspective dance induces ecstatic states by releasing neurotransmitters that allow us to feel connected, content and at ease. But more importantly releases neurotransmitters that allow us to connect with pleasure. When our brains are flooded with these positive emotions our inner feelings and moods shift away from our individual problems to connect with expansive and inclusive states. These are states of ecstasy.
Key to getting towards this state are spontaneous movements, letting go our desire to be in control as individuals and entering the dance with a state of ‘unknowing’. When we start to dance and have no idea what will emerge the magic happens in the moments when we discover and experience something different from what we would have planned or thought of. Our brains delight in this and reach ever further into the realms of ecstasy.
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