“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
Palo Alto World Music Day is a free community cultural music festival that takes place every year on Father's Day in downtown Palo Alto. Closed to traffic, University Avenue becomes an impromptu venue for fifty professional and amateur musical groups who perform a variety of genres on street corners and plazas: jazz, blues, classical, pop, […]
Jaheli (Baba Karam) Dance Workshopwith Farima Berenji Jaheli or Baba Karam is a playful imitation of the machismo style of dance done by the working class men of Tehran. The dance illustrates typical movements inspired by tough street gang members of the Qajar era known as “Jahel”. Jâheli is part of an Iranian sub-culture that […]
Special workshop in Bandari, an Indo-Iranian tribal style dance from Southern Iran.
Farima shares her favorite music and passions as special guest during this radio interview on KZSU 90.1 FM Stanford University. Listen live on kzsu.stanford.edu.
Iranian and Turkish Sufi dance workshop with Shamanic rituals. In collaboration with Sufi musicians of Ankara. Workshop and Performance by Farima and Oğuz Kaan Birhekimoğlu. Join us on a path for healing and self-growth through the power of meditative whirling and sacred dance to live music, mystical Persian poetry, and Zikr (prayer). With us create […]
Haft Sema - Haft Magham (7 Sema - 7 Modes) Sufi Whirling and Iranian Sufi Music Retreat Three day intensive Sema (Sufi whirling) training and healing workshop for the seven styles of Sufi whirling based on the ancient Persian seven sacred elements of life. With master instructor Farima Berenji,award winning dance ethnologist, shaman, and master […]
Learn a fun Baba Karam choreography by dance artist, instructor, and scholar Farima Berenji. Jaheli or Baba Karam is a playful imitation of the machismo style of dance done by the working class men of Tehran. The dance illustrates typical movements inspired by tough street gang members of the Qajar era known as “Jahel”. Jâheli […]
Atmosphere Gathering 2016 Atmosphere Gathering is an annual August music and dance festival gathering. Farima Berenji will appear among the performers. It is an intimate family friendly event, kids 12 and under free with parents. Tickets.. Facebook event...
Join us on beautiful Denman Island for a full immersion/retreat focusing on Farima Berenji's signature project, “Awakening” – Sacred Dances, History, and Rituals of Persia, Mesopotamia, and Ionia. We will take the path of the ancients, a journey of discovery, in space and time...reconnecting with the ancient Goddesses and sacred elements of Persia and the […]
Join us at the Denman Island Community Hall for an inspiring evening of dance performances and Sema (AKA Sufi whirling) with international dance artist and scholar Farima Berenji. The evening starts with Persian traditional and sacred dance performances by Farima, the Simorgh Dance Collective, as well as dancers attending the Awakening Seven Persian Goddesses retreat. […]