Namah (Persian Dance Company) http://friendfeed.com/e...http://namah.net - Banafsheh Sayyad is an internationally renowned Persian dancer and choreographer. Considered a pioneer in her field, she approaches dance as prayer. Her teaching is an innovative fusion of dance technique and rapturous response
- Mitchell Tsai
She holds an MFA in Dance from UCLA and is a certified acupuncturist. Sayyad has extensively toured her solo and ensemble work with her company NAMAH in Europe, North America and Australia.
- Mitchell Tsai
@Selma I studied Modern Persian Dance one semester with Banafsheh at UCLA circa 1996-2002. She's awesome! A real princess, with very regal impressive demanor. Her husband Peshman (?) plays awesome drums. His fingers are so fast!
- Mitchell Tsai
Her dancers use their long hair like another tail/arm/leg. It's amazing. She taught us "male" Persian dancing along with the "female" dance.
- Mitchell Tsai
Women aren't allowed to dance in modern Persia, right?
- iTad
Tad: Banafsheh told us a funny story. When she & her husband were approaching other musicians to ask them to play music with their dance, she was very worried. But when her husband's friends saw her dance, they said "We'd love to play. This is ART, not DANCE." Dance has a very low reputation in Persia (from what Banafsheh shared with us)...ala NYC 42nd St hookers.
- Mitchell Tsai
I love how the music, poetry and dance mix together to create this trance like feeling…
- Selma
Well not really, dance is quite popular among people here (although the dance in its general sense is considered a way of seduction and to go with pop music it is considered a bit cheap (what is cheap any way?) ) but I'm absolutely certain choreography and dance as art and performance is loved …the problem is that the hardliner religious view totally rejects it as useless and...
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- Selma
Selma: Do you think the opinion of dance has changed in Iran since Banafsheh left - maybe in 1990? In Taiwan and my parents generation (born 1937-40), going to nightclubs and dancing was considered very bad, like being in a gang and having fights. Even now, only the VERY progressive friends of my parents age do any social dancing (even just waltz) For my generation (born 1960-1975) and later, the kids in Taiwan all go dancing at night clubs.
- Mitchell Tsai
The change isn't dramatic … but these past few years there have been so many private unofficial dance classes …even in small gyms they have started classes where they teach dance (you see we have integrated it into physical exercise as a way to legitimize it !) most parents here are proud to let their children learn the traditional Persian dances. Something you could not see...
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- Selma
Different story by West African dancers - dance was accepted in the communities, but not viewed as a good career. See my pictures here http://spiritualbusinesscompan... The "master dancers" from Guinea, Mali, and Congo talked about how their parents didn't like their following a dance career (in the Ballet de Jolie, etc...), but now they make lots of money in the US. And the Guinea people now respect the "master dancers" because their country is so poor, and US money makes them rich.
- Mitchell Tsai
interesting coz I think the young generation are more into dance styles other than traditional Persian style!
- Shandiz
I think it's like that everywhere. Korea & Japan have SO many hip-hop teachers. Way more than America.
- Mitchell Tsai
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- Hamed Safa
عه حامد تو هم با من موافقی؟ایول همه کارتای زردت پرید برو خوش باش.تا یک ماهم کارت زرد نمی دم بهت:)))))))))) به شرطی که همینجوری اینجوری باشی و تبلیغات این مدلیت بیشتر بشه:)))))))
- joupy
اینجاست که شاعر می گه کفتر کاکل به سر های های:))))))))))))))خدایی حسین مشغول الذمبه ای اگه یه دونه از این عکساتو امضا نکنی بدی به من:)))))))))))))))))و کیدی به شدت افسرده شده ,اینست آخر عاقبت بلایند دیت:)))))))))))
- Shandiz
@ماشا: نگرفتي نكته رو. اينجوري همه فكر ميكنن تو ماشالله هستي .ياد در و دهات ميافتن. اما وقتي بشي مهسا همه ياد پاريس و نيويورك ميافتن :))):))))))))) به اين ميگن روانشناسي اب دو خياري. حالا گرفتي نكته رو ؟؟
- mhmazidi
دقت نموديم كه بعضي از برادران در فرندفيد-توييتر از واژه بدصدا و نامطبوعي استفاده ميكنند تحت عنوان گ ---و --- ز---ي--د--ه. التفات كنيد كه اينجا نسوان فراواني هستند. توصيه ميكنيم زين پس بگوييم: بيب داده
Imām Ridhā(also Emam Reza) shrine (Persian: حرم امام رضا) in Mashhad, Iran is a complex which contains the mausoleum of Imām Ridhā, the eighth Imām of Twelver Shi'ites. Also contained within the complex include: the Goharshad Mosque, a museum, a library, seminaries, a cemetery, a dining hall for pilgrims, vast prayer halls, and other buildings. This complex is the center of tourism in Iran, visited by 15 to 20 million pilgrims every year.
- ardiba
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Photos captured by: Soudeh Rad and Mahdi Ayat.
- ardiba
Today is the birthday of Imam Reza.You know that he is one the most beloved Imam’s of the Shia people of the Islamic world. Imam Reza’s shrine is in Mashhad, Iran, and because of that, he is very respectable among Iranian people and every day, many pilgrims travel to Mashhad city to ask their pleas heard by their holly Imam.Today is the birthday of Imam Reza.
- ardiba
Happy birthday to Imam Reza and Happy Eid to All :)
- ardiba
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- amir farahani
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استفاده کردم خیلی زیبا بود.انصافآ زیبا بود و از قیافه ی قبلی جیمیلم خیلی بهتر بود
- reza
واقعا قشنگ بود و زیبا و جذاب، دستت درد نکنه، به کساییم که از محیط ساده جیمیل خسته شدن توصیه میکنم از این اکستنشن استفاده بکنن
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