A unique dance performance is coming to Thalia Mara Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 23. But don’t expect eye-catching costumes, a spectacular light show and booming music through a state-of-the-art sound ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. JAFFA, Israel — In a family’s living room in this seaside town, seven people ...

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation” — a cliché yet profound statement. This is certainly true when translating from one language to another. However, what if one translates languages beyond the ...

Many religious and spiritual traditions incorporate dance as a pathway to the divine. Native American tribes of the Great Plains celebrate the cycle of birth and death during the Sun Dance. Some Jews ...

Mehmet Gunyeli’s body of black and white photographs, reduced to outline the Darvish dancers, haunt everyone who views them. His series Dervishers / Beliefs’ Dancing, executed in 2007, presents ...

BRATTLEBORO -- The Ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes was developed to commemorate Rumi's life and teaching. Although Rumi is one of the most read poets in America, few people know that he was also ...

When eminent techno DJ and producer Carl Cox embarks on his first North American tour in fifteen years, he’ll be making only a dozen stops, in Mexico, for the Electric Daisy Carnival, and in a handful ...

Dance The very name is evocative of space, movement, time. The Whirling Dervishes of Konya, Turkey, are making their first appearance in Indianapolis, at Clowes Hall on Monday, Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m.

Editor's Note: Because the Dervishes do not speak English, Dervish Ahmet ?alisir's responses were translated from Turkish by Sena Arpinar, a member of the Istanbul Center in Atlanta. The Classic ...

Fahima Mirzaie performs a Sema dance (Sufi Whirling) in Kabul Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. Taking on an unorthodox task in her society, the 24-year-old teaches men and women Sufi whirling.

Bosnia's Sufis are looking forward to the opening of a new "tekke" in Sarajevo next month after construction finished on April 6 -- replacing a shrine built in the 15th century that was destroyed ...