Ecstatic Dance Derby

You are invited to join a powerful dance journey designed to awaken your energy, shake out stress and reconnect you to your body’s wisdom.  No judgement. No choreography. Just a safe, welcoming space to move exactly as you feel.

✨ What is Ecstatic Dance?

It’s a freeform, barefoot, sober dance journey where you’re invited to move exactly as you feel  — no steps, no performance, no judgement, no pressure to be anything other than yourself.

In Ecstatic Dance, we explore movement as a form of healing.

• You might feel joyful and expansive
• You might move through frustration, sadness, resistance, or release
• You might find yourself flowing, shaking, stretching, or resting
• You might move through many different emotions during the same dance.

Everything is welcome. There is no right or wrong way to dance.

✨ What to Expect

• A grounding opening meditation
• A journey through various styles of music danced as a wave of energies for example: slow and spacious, flowing, building into tribal rhythms, electronic and ecstatic peaks, then settling back down into deep calm.
• We dance with wireless headphones for a fully immersive journey.
• A safe, drug and alcohol free, barefoot space
• Move, play, shake, stretch, rest, express, release, connect, transform

✨ Schedule 

6.45 - 7 pm Arrive, get your headphones, settle into the space.

7 - 7.30 pm Welcome and opening meditation.

7.30 - 8.45 pm Ecstatic Dance Journey - the music builds like a wave — rising, intensifying, softening — supporting you to move through layers of energy and emotion.

8.45 - 9.15 pm - Relaxing and closing circle (no pressure to say or do anything in the closing circle)

✨ Guidelines 

The following guidelines help ensure we keep the space safe and supportive for all:

• No talking on the dance floor - helps us stay present in our dance.
• Barefoot dancing - this is encouraged to ground. Socks can be worn.
• Sober space – no alcohol or drugs.
• Mobile phones on silent and away - this is screen free time! No photos or filming is permitted during the dance.
• You do you – All movement welcome - big, small, wild, still, eyes open or closed.  All should respect themselves and others’ expressions through dance without judgment.

✨ Venue and Practicalities 

ADDRESS: Darley Abbey Village Hall, Abbey Yard, Darley Abbey, Derby DE22 1DS

PARKING: There is free car parking at the hall and in the village and there are a number of regular bus services. 

WHAT TO BRING WITH YOU:

• Comfortable layered clothing (it can get chilly when we relax at the end)
• Water bottle
• Glasses + headphones + dancing are sometimes not the best of friends!  If you wear contact lenses, they might be more comfortable for you
• Curiosity, openness, and your beautiful self

✨How to stay connected with the Ecstatic Dance Derby community ✨

This is the launch of Ecstatic Dance Derby, a new sister community to Ecstatic Dance Matlock, which started in January 2026.

The Derby community has its own WhatsApp group for updates, on-the-day information, post-dance playlists and connection:

• If you’d like to join the Ecstatic Dance Derby WhatsApp community group click here: Join via WhatsApp

You can also follow the social pages, where updates about both communities will be shared:

• Follow on Instagram @ecstaticdancematlock 
• Follow on Facebook @ecstaticdancematlock

We can't wait to welcome you!