The Art of Persian Dance is a visually inspiring book that — for the first time in the art form’s centuries-old history — outlines the kind of precise movements that have mesmerized audiences around ...

Niosha Dance Academy performs throughout the USA at cultural arts festivals, local community events, as well as producing their own annual performance in the Bay Area, and strives to maintain and ...

Photo by Sallie Deette Mackie”He's gone far beyond me as a choreographer,” Avaz International Dance Theater founder Dr. Anthony Shay says of choreographer Jamal, as the music roars and we watch a ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The Persian Culture Show that took place on Saturday at 7 p.m. in the Power Center displayed the ...

Shahrzad Khorsandi and Farima Berenji, both Bay Area performers of Iranian descent, are on a special mission to preserve the spiritual heritage of Persian dance. “I always danced informally. It’s so ...

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“Life in a Day” is a millennium in the making. The Minneapolis Katha Dance Theatre is performing an original production inspired by Persian poet Omar Khayyam’s “Rubaiyat.” The original piece is an 894 ...

Hope springs eternal — or at least for the past 3,000 years, by the Zoroastrian calendar. But at the SF Opera House, this will be its first bloom. The Presidio Dance Theatre’s annual Children’s Day ...

A Venezuela-born, Catholic-raised Jew by choice, Reyna Simnegar was not her future mother-in-law's idea of a desirable match for her beloved son Sammy. The woman, a Persian Jew who fled Iran in the ...