The whirling dervish or commonly known as whirling sufi is a religious meditative practice performed in Sufism a sect within Islam. It is a performative ritual which without context looks like a dance, but the ritual is a form of meditation and worship the purpose of it is to reach a state of “ecstatic trances”.
Practitioners of the whirling sufi dance often wear a dress that elevates elegantly during the dance.
The dance itself consists of continuously spinning around, it’s not choreographed in advance.