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 ...

The Ninth edition of Sama’a: ‘The Mystic Ecstasy’ festival of Sufi music, hosted by NCPA from February 22 to 24, will feature Sufi ideology through music and dance performances by celebrated Indian ...

KABUL: Fahima Mirzaie set up a dance school for women in the Afghan capital last year, hoping to help her students fight depression and find inner peace in a war-torn country where dancing is widely ...

Boléro was originally produced as a ballet by Maurice Béjart. Suvarnalata Rao, the head of Indian music programming at Mumbai’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), had one clear ...

Women have won hard-fought rights since the rule of the Taliban was ended in 2001 but there are growing fears that gains might be reversed as the U.S. seeks to end more than 18 years of war KABUL, Jan ...