For more info, contact:
Luna Pictures Australia
Tel: 61-3- 95327582
Fax: 61-3- 95316174

Dances of Ecstasy supports the following sites:

Halveti Jerrahi Order - www.jerrahi.org

Gabrielle Roth - www.ravenrecording.com

Rainbow Serpent Festival - www.greenant.com

One Giant Leap - www.1giantleap.tv

What The Bleep - www.whatthebleep.com

The Groove Garden - www.thegroovegarden.com

Earthdance - www.earthdance.org

Wilbert Alix - www.trancedance.com

Six Degrees Records - www.sixdegreesrecords.com

Visionary environments - www.crystalandspore.com

Firedance - www.firedance.org

Keywords:
dance, trance, ecstasy. extasy, ecstatic, spiritual, shamanism, sacred, spiritual dance,
film, documentary, rhythm, ecstacy. exstacy, trance, extacy, extasy

DANCES OF ECSTASY is a sensory journey into the mesmerising world of trance and music that binds dancers from Manhattan to Morocco. The film travels to various traditional and modern day rituals to discover, what is the altered state experience which people seek through dance. In these rituals, Whirling dervishes from Turkey, Orisha priestesses from Nigeria and Brazil and Shaman healers from the Kalahari and Korea pulse to the same beat as thousands of young people at an all night techno dance party in an Australian forest. DANCES OF ECSTASY celebrates the universal human experience where rhythm and dance unite us. Throughout history, states of ecstasy were a way of connecting with a divine power. The film explores the many dimensions of trance and discovers, that what links them together is the human need to connect with a spiritual dimension a living part of many traditional cultures, while others seek to rebuild it and modern culture searches for it.
DANCES OF ECSTASY is a visual and aural feast, an innovative documentary blending exciting dance rituals, evocative imagery, interviews and a spellbinding global music soundtrack. The film is an inspiration to dance, and to reconnect with a sense of the sacred that many have lost touch with in modern life.