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Article: The New Age of Rave: They chant, they dance, they do downward dog. No drugs or drink allowed. These kids are high on life.
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- Newsweek
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- July 7, 2003
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Byline: Suzanne Smalley
Kim Schmidt glistens with sweat as she dances, trancelike, to the repetitive beat coming from industrial-size speakers in the corner. It's two hours past midnight in a loft in New York City's Chelsea district, and more than a hundred blissed-out twenty somethings spin with her in the half light. Down a dark hall, in the "chill out" room, others sit--eyes closed, hands clasped--looking blank. What are these people on?
Nothing, it turns out. Or rather, Schmidt and her friends are high on "New Age raves," an underground movement that blends the healthiest elements of raves--electronic music and dance marathons--with yoga, meditation ...