Final answer:
Participants from the San people, Balinese culture, and Western theatre have described transcendental experiences in Dancing: The Power of Dance. These dance practices serve various cultural and spiritual functions and evoke transformative states.
Step-by-step explanation:
In Dancing: The Power of Dance, participants from various cultures described transcendental experiences during their dance practices. Among those, the San people's trance dancers experience a physiological and mystical state, granting them healing powers and out-of-body experiences. This ritual is deeply spiritual for the San and is often depicted in ancient rock art. Similarly, in Balinese culture, the kris dance as featured in the film Trance and Dance in Bali, shows dancers falling into a trance and experiencing a transformative journey as part of a dramatic narrative that involves becoming immune to self-inflicted stabbings with daggers while under a trance. Finally, actors in the Western theatre often describe their experience of fully embodying a character as transformative, supported by brain scan studies that indicate a decrease in self-awareness and the emergence of a 'double consciousness' when in character.