List of Persian/Iranian Events for 2007-06-29

Mystical Persian Dance & Sufi Ritual

http://www.hollyhock.ca/cms/index.cfm?Group_ID=3904

Jun 29 - Jul 4, 2007

Sayyad
Presented by: Banafsheh Sayyad

Dance

Turn, tremble and bow your way to greater freedom. In this mesmerizing workshop, melt and merge into awareness through a potent mix of Persian Dance and Sufi Ritual. Experience wave-like gestures that awaken the chakras and the spirit. Explore the intersection between trance and directed movement. Discover how Tai Chi and Chinese Meridian theory can ignite our true internal rhythms. With creative guidance from the revered Persian poet, Rumi, twist and twirl with ecstatic and sincere expression. In the Dance of Oneness, the body becomes the instrument of poetry. Everyone welcome.

TUITION: $545 CDN, $505 US (meals & accommodation extra), 5 nights

Banafsheh Sayyad is an internationally renowned Persian dancer and choreographer. Considered a pioneer in her field, she approaches dance as prayer. Her teaching is an innovative fusion of dance technique and rapturous response. She holds an MFA in Dance from UCLA and is a certified acupuncturist. Sayyad has extensively toured her solo and ensemble work with her company NAMAH in Europe, North America and Australia. www.namah.net

"Her sacred dance caused almost unbearable ecstasy to rise up within me and burst forth into another world.” ~ Past Workshop Participant

“Part whirling dervish, part flamenco femme fatale, sensuous and audacious, Banafsheh's dance is a mesmerizing foray into the body as trance mechansim; a DNA strand, supple, fluid and noble, come to life.~ LA Times

The 18th International IWSF Conference

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Achievements and Challenges of Iranian Women:

A Cross-generational Perspective

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University of Maryland, Collage park, USA

June 29- July 1,2007

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www.iwsf.org

703-856-1163



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06/29/2007 12:30 PM - Borders Books and Music

150 North State Street, Chicago, Illinois



Nazanin will be touring select Borders stores across the USA in June and July. She will share her positive message of "Progressive Revolution" through speech and song. All are invited to see Nazanin speak out on the causes she holds dear and intimately perform tracks from her debut disc Someday.



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www.myspace.com/nazaninmusic

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Groundbreaking Persian-American tenor saxophonist Hafez Modirzadeh collaborates with San Diego jazz greats Peter Sprague (guitar), Gunnar Biggs (doublebass), and Duncan Moore (drums) for an evening of eclectic world jazz at the acoustically-perfect Neurosciences Institute.



Dr. Modirazadeh (aka Modir), currently professor of music at San Francisco State University, has created a way to "construct a purely Iranian American jazz style," by adapting the jazz saxophone to the Persian tuning system. More generally, "chromodality" is Hafez's method of integrating different musical systems, and it has allowed him to work with such diverse musicians as Zakir Hussein, Danongan Kalanduyan, Ramin Zoufonoun, Jesus Hernandez, and the Asian-American Orchestra among many others.

Comedy in Hampstead


Friday 29, Saturday 30 June
Sunday 1 July, Monday 2 July

8pm

Downstairs at
The Washington
Englands Lane
Hampstead
London NW3 4UE

Tube: Belsize Park

Info and reservations: 07983 486 839
or email: soulbeancafe@gmail.com

Tickets: £8 (£6 students)