“Everything in dance is poetry. Every movement describes a story, a feeling. The dancer takes the audience into a world of fairy tales.” ~Farima Berenji
Join the celebration of our mosaic of American cultures at the first annual MOSAIC FESTIVAL in Silicon Valley. The very first of its kind, the festival honors our community with a day of belonging, healing, and harmony through art. Experience performances by artists around the Bay Area. Discover cultures through food in an eclectic curation […]
A Sufi Invocation Sunset - 8:00 pm on Come welcome Farima Berenji , founder of the Simorgh Dance Collective, and Magi Sufi Dance Master to Brooklyn! Farima will lead us in with a Sunset Sufi Invocation and be our guide through a night of dancing dervishes, poetry, a celebration spinning and whirling in its many […]
Join us for an evening celebrating Yalda (winter solstice), the longest night of the year. Shab-e Yalda (Yalda Night) is the Persian Winter Solstice Celebration on the eve of the Winter Solstice. The Persians believed that this night is the night of the birth of Ahura Mazda and Mithra, Persian God of Light and Truth. […]
Farima and the Simorgh Dance Collective perform for the Zoroastrian Organization of Paris
The Iranian Cultural Foundation- Houston (ICF) invites you to the 13th Annual Nowruz Festival in Houston featuring Shahyad, Persian Folkloric dances by Farima Berenji and Simorgh Dance Collective, Char Band, Mahmoud Ghorbani (Host), and more... The largest Persian New Year celebration in Texas! Tickets are available now Buy Tickets
Join us for an afternoon celebrating Norouz, the coming of Spring! Norouz is the traditional spring and new year celebration of the Persian and Central Asian people. Norouz means “New Day” and it falls on the March equinox, the first day of spring. Families on Norouz gather together and wait for the exact time it […]
A fun, free, and family-friendly festival, ArtSplash is an invitation to the community to explore and sample all Montalvo has to offer. The Simorgh Dance Collective will be featured with Mosaic America performing Persian and Silk Road dances. The day will feature hands-on artmaking activities, architectural tours of the historic Villa and Lucas Artists Residency […]
Eastern Arts returns with a beautiful evening of world dance to welcome Spring. The concert has the most international dance varieties we have ever offered. We invite you to join us, invite others, and enjoy a beautiful evening of music, dance, and pure joy, as we feature special guest artist Farima Berenji from California and […]
The Simorgh Dance Collective performs Persian and Silk Road dance on the Global Beats Stage. During our performance we invite everyone to learn and participate in a fun dance from the Silk Road. Experience inspirational and informative seminar stages (Travel Channel Theater, and Destination Theater), plus culture and entertainment abound on the Taste of Travel […]
Come celebrate the fourth annual “Historic Folsom Hometown Parade,” a community celebration taking place on Saturday, June 25th starting at 9:30 a.m. in Historic Folsom. We couldn’t be more excited to bring back this family fun even to the district. The Hometown Parade will take place on Sutter Street, beginning at Scott Street and heading […]