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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a ride!,
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This review is from: Various: Dances of Ecstasy [DVD] (DVD)
By the end of watching this film, you WILL just leap up and dance ... if you're not dancing already! In fact when the producers show this film, dancing is organised to follow on immediately ... and boy do the people dance!I met one of the co-directors in July - an inspiring lady - who told me she spent 7 years travelling the world gathering material for a documentary ... but it just hadn't turned out that way. What she's produced instead is, as the sub-title says, "a sensory journey through rhythm, dance and music - a workout for the soul" - and it certainly is! The film weaves original, lushious footage from several different cultures from across the world - from Australians at all-night desert raves to Turkish whirling dervishes to New York trance dancers to an Orisha priestess in Namibia to a shamen in Nigeria ... each woven in and out of the other, building up and up and up, leading the viewer to a deep understanding of the contents of and links between dances of ecstasy around the world, and even to an insight into the experience of deep trance states (ecstatic trances). A beautiful film. After the main 1 hour-ish film are in depth documentaries following the individual dances/trances featured - including a complete sufi sema ceremony, for greater insight. If you are interested in dance, rhythm, trance, the connection between different peoples around the world or spirituality, this film is a unique and powerful insight.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
disappointed,
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This review is from: Various: Dances of Ecstasy [DVD] (DVD)
I was hoping for a world dance DVD but what I got was a cheesy overpriced collage of badly photographed dance tracks that jumped between US-Australian raves and the more interesting Afro-Asian dance rituals. The basic idea is to draw parallels between the dance scene and traditional ecstatic spiritual dancing. Very little information on the ethos, history, dance or sociology of the dances shown. I doubt if I will watch this a second time and feel that the makers gave very little credit to the average viewers intelligence.
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