They tend to end, bumpily or inspiredly, with ecstatic dancing, a song, an expressionistic poem, or a surreal dreamlike image.

One important part of it is ecstatic dancing - a kind of frenzied prancing around that leads to some sort of mystic experience.

But the women kept dancing, uninhibited and ecstatic.

River's ecstatic dancing suddenly falters when Book is shot, but before Simon can react to his sister's distress, he is kidnapped by a group of men.

This ecstatic dancing also produced power and visions of the future, some of which at least came true.

For more than a decade, in his youth, he'd belonged to a moderately ascetic order much given to ecstatic dancing.

They worshiped by ecstatic dancing or "shaking", which dubbed them as the Shaking Quakers, or Shakers.

After 90 minutes of caricatures and culture clashes, the groom's uptight family joins the bride's raucous one at the wedding reception for some ecstatic Greek dancing.

After they fall into a trance,there are hours of ecstatic dancing, then a climax of fire swallowing.

All over the world, cultures have created rituals of ecstatic communal dancing.