Iranian classical dance has mostly remained hidden from international audiences, as it has been practiced and developed mainly underground in Iran and the Iranian diaspora since the Islamic Revolution ...

- Mahali Dance Flash Mob (Persian Folklore) A colorful collaboration of Community Dance Groups performing Iranian regional folk dances. Includes Niosha Dance Academy, Beshkan Dance Academy & dancers ...

No one has the time of their lives in “Desert Dancer,” a fact-based drama in which all the dancing is dirty — at least according to Iran’s Islamic “morality police,” the Basij. The principal offender ...

Mixed-sex raves are illegal in Iran but they happen anyway - far away from the prying eyes of the morality police - and some of the female DJs getting the crowds dancing are also breaking taboos and ...

[ theater ] In one of my previous Tehran Bureau essays on Verdi's Shakespearian opera Macbeth-- "Macbeth and the Marks of Violence" -- I drew a parallel between the opera's dark side and contemporary ...

Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo has joined the cast of 'Arezou,' which was inspired by The Iranian National Ballet Company. By Mia Galuppo Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo is attached to star in ...

Left: An Iranian dancer practises pole-dancing in a private underground venue. Right: Another Iranian woman performs aerial dance in a women-only gym. In a country where women are banned from riding ...

IRANIAN women took to social media to mock clerical rulers on today after the nations strict Islamic judiciary arrested a teen girl for posting Instagram videos of herself dancing. Gymnast Maedeh ...

Hanging from a rope, a harness or a hoop, Iranian women are flocking to gyms to perform aerial dance and sharing videos of their routines on social media. Others are quietly practising another form of ...