Current home — Sunday mornings. The northwest-suburban container: a biweekly Sunday-morning ecstatic dance at Mainwood Dance Club. Doors 9:30, dance 9:45–11:30.
Venues
A living tribute to the venues that have made space for ecstatic dance — past and present — across Chicago and the suburbs. Every floor here has carried sweat, silence, and song.
Current home — Sunday mornings. The northwest-suburban container: a biweekly Sunday-morning ecstatic dance at Mainwood Dance Club. Doors 9:30, dance 9:45–11:30.
Current home — Wednesday nights. Home of Chicago Ecstatic Dance (formerly Rhythm Sanctuary Chicago). Every Wednesday evening, doors 7:00pm.
Past home of Rhythm Sanctuary Chicago. Rhythm Sanctuary Chicago made a name for itself at Altar Community — a space devoted to ceremony, music, and intentional gathering — before moving to the Hairpin.
The originating lineage. The Rhythm Sanctuary container — substance-free, non-verbal, fully expressed — that Kate Janecko carried to Chicago and seeded the local community with.
The grandfather of ecstatic dance in Chicago. For years, ecstaticdancechicago.com held the original Chicago container — the first regular ecstatic dance many of us ever found in this city.
Whether you've danced at a past ecstatic dance venue we should honor here, or you want to host one going forward — tell us below.
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