“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
2015 February 19-22 Journey Through the Silk Road Workshop Anchorage, AK February 14 Multicultural Concert Representing Iran Anchorage, AK 2014 December 14 Yalda Celebration San Jose, CA November 28-30 Sacred and Traditional Dances of the Silk Road Cumberland, BC November 24 LINES Dance Center Benefit San Francisco, CA October 26 Sufi Spinning and Sacred Dances […]
Persian New Year dance, music, and poetry concert including performances by Farima Berenji, Persian musician Soheila Shadloo of Brno, Prague dance company Zephyr, and the Rahat Lukum Dance Company. Read more…
Central Asian Dance Saturday, March 21, 2015 Dances of Central Asia including Uzbek and Tajik dance. Sacred Dances of Ancient Persia and Sufi Whirling Sunday, March 22, 2015 Cost: 900 kč per session. To register contact: svetlana@rahatlukum.cz
Sema, 3 days - 3 nights Sema, lasting 3 nights and days, with live music. The Sema is a prayer, an invocation in dance form and has ritualistic elements and a step on the path of universal love. Without losing the feeling of unity, the individual is among all the others and together with them. […]
Farima’s signature project Dance of the Soul combines sacred and mystical whirling movements, Sufi traditions, and healing rituals of ancient Persia, Turkey, and the Altai Mountains. Learn both personal and spiritual whirling based on Farima's archeological discoveries and research, and of Sufism and its connection to ancient Iranian Zoroastrianism, planets, stars, sacred flowers and animals—all […]
TUMATA Sound of Light Concert TUMATA, the Traditional Turkish Music Research and Promotion Society, presents Sound of Light a traditional music and dance concert featuring dance performances by Farima Berenji. Read more...
Central Asian dance movements workshop with Farima Berenji. Discover and practice Tajik, Uzbek, Turkmen, and Uyghur dance movements and choreography in this 2 ½ hour workshop.