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 ...

When I was two years old, I started taking dance classes. I remember twirling to “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider” in a small room made for small people, wearing a pink leotard and tutu and ballet slippers.

The dance floor always felt comfortable to me, at a wedding or a club, acting as an invitation to lose myself to the beat and move my body however it was meant to. Little did I know that reigniting ...

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