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From DanceResource.org

Examples include the trance dances of the San people in Southern Africa, the spinning rituals of Sufi mystics, and drum-based ceremonies among Afro-Brazilian and Native American traditions.[1] These practices often aimed to induce altered states of consciousness for collective healing, spiritual insight, or social bonding.

  1. Aldridge, D. (1996). Music therapy research and practice in medicine: From out of the silence. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.