Recent videos of a famed female dissident dancing in prison reveal a mental liberation from repression.

The ladies are also believed to have had their Instagram accounts blocked after they were detained for posting the dance. The official punishment the women face is still unconfirmed with Iran's ...

Iranian women have been central to protests in Iran in recent times - including using dance as a form of defiance. In the 2022 protests that swept the Islamic nation videos showed schoolgirls ...

Through the film’s collaboration with Kaufman, she was referred to Ella Melideo, a junior majoring in dance, who then signed on to choreograph. Ella has danced with artists such as Sia and Mariah ...

“Shoulder, shoulder, sexy shoulder, eyebrow, attitude” is how he begins his movement lesson in Iranian dance. Michael Shayan in “Avaaz” in the Upstairs Studio at Chicago Shakespeare Theate ...

Iranian police arrested two young women after ... They are also not allowed to dance in public places. But many women have pushed the boundaries by allowing their head coverings to slide back ...

Alireza Jadidi is a young Iranian musician who was able to create a drastic change in Persian music by producing music in ...

“Shoulder, shoulder, sexy shoulder, eyebrow, attitude” is how he begins his movement lesson in Iranian dance. Clearly, Shayan (who also talks at length about being an “Iranian Jew”) is ...