Photo by Sallie Deette Mackie”He's gone far beyond me as a choreographer,” Avaz International Dance Theater founder Dr. Anthony Shay says of choreographer Jamal, as the music roars and we watch a ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Presidio Dance Theatre (PDT) announced plans to present A Norouz Celebration as ...
Niosha Dance Academy performs throughout the USA at cultural arts festivals, local community events, as well as producing their own annual performance in the Bay Area, and strives to maintain and ...
After Nazari finished speaking, Persian dance music began to play and continued throughout the night. As guests continued to trickle in, many took the opportunity to use the self-operating photo booth ...
Hope springs eternal — or at least for the past 3,000 years, by the Zoroastrian calendar. But at the SF Opera House, this will be its first bloom. The Presidio Dance Theatre’s annual Children’s Day ...
UTA partner Keya Khayatian and actress-filmmaker Zar Amir Ebrahimi are both from Iran but left the country under somewhat traumatic circumstances: Khayatian as a child with his parents fleeing the ...
Nowruz, the Persian New Year, falls on March 20. Meaning “new day” in Farsi, Nowruz is a time for celebrations with family and friends. Symbolizing renewal, rebirth and the triumph of light over ...
Sharon Sabet steps into a circle of dancers and lifts her tambourine like a rising moon. Combing her hair, putting on her makeup, twirling on her toes, she dances the part of a Persian princess in a ...
Ancient and modern blended on the streets of Manhattan Sunday as thousands thronged to the annual Persian parade. Organizer Cyrus Assadi, one of the parade’s founders, said this year’s event brought ...