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After conceiving the Sufi Kathak dance form, when Kathak dancer Manjari Chaturvedi started performing 25 years ago, she was completely written off. Manjari Chaturvedi founder Sufi Kathak 25 years back ...

On July 16, a group of female musicians and dancers will perform the sama, a traditional dance of Sufi Islam, for the first time in Tehran. Thirty-five drummers will accompany the dancers of Ava-ye ...

Turkish born Austrian dancer and choreographer Ziya Azazi remembers his first trip to India (in 2012) as a surreal experience. While he had read about the country, being here helped him experience 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 ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A group of young Afghans – both women and men – is coming together in the country’s war-torn capital to practice a mystical Sufi Islamic dance. The group’s founder says she sees ...

CAIRO - In downtown Cairo, a weekly dance show attracts large numbers of visitors. Families and people of all ages come to watch al-Tanoura, an Egyptian folk dance steeped in the tradition of Sufism, ...

Manjari Chaturvedi, pioneer of Sufi Kathak, performed on the fourth day of the Patiala Heritage Festival “Dance is like a worship, my language, and expression to convey my message about the Bulleh ...

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Dancers perform Sufi dance during a summer night at Wekalet El-Ghoury in Cairo, Egypt, July 15, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Dongzhen) A dancer performs Sufi dance during a summer night at Wekalet El-Ghoury in ...