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Rebirth was celebrated at Bill Barber Community Park in Irvine as nearly 1,200 celebrants gathered for the inaugural Persian New Year (Nowruz) Festival. The event happens on the first day of spring ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

BENGALURU: Have you considered learning a new dance form? How about a Persian dance for a change? Bengaluru will host city’s first Persian dance class on February 3 and will be instructed by Anahid ...

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, ...

“The Scarlet Stone,” a dance-theater retelling of a tragic Persian myth about a hero father and his son, could not be performed in present day Iran. There, due to the exegeses of the state religion, ...

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 ...