“Dances of Ecstasy” 2004, Australia, 60 minutes Dances of ecstasy is a sensory journey into the mesmerizing 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.