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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 ...

After Nazari finished speaking, Persian dance music began to play and continued throughout the night. As guests continued to trickle in, many took the opportunity to use the self-operating photo booth ...

Presidio Dance Theatre (PDT) announced plans to present A Norouz Celebration as the central theme for the company's return to the War Memorial Opera House for its annual Children's Day programming, ...

IRVINE – Amir Khazan looks forward to the annual Sizdah Bedar festival that is celebrated on the 13th day of the Persian New Year and held at William R. Mason Regional Park. “It is one of the few ...

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 ...