“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
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Seven Cities of Love
Seven Cities of Love – A Journey to Simorgh – Lecture, Concert, Workshop
The Seven Cities of Love Concert is a dramatic music and dance performance led by three of the most distinguished artists from the Persian and Turkish cultures: Davod Azad, Farima Berenji, and Latif Bolat. Together with their colleagues they bring together soul-stirring mystical melodies, and exquisite sacred dances of ancient worlds to illustrate mystical poetry in a tapestry of sound and colour, gesture and motion, word and breath, to touch hearts and to open a window to pure transcendent beauty.
The performance draws inspiration from a masterpiece of classical Persian poetry, Conference of the Birds, by twelfth century Sufi poet Attar of Nishabur. Attar’s mystical allegory, considered the jewel in the crown of Sufi tales, speaks of the journey of the birds through the Seven Cities of Love to meet the king of birds, the glorious Simorgh. This is an exposition of the humanity’s spiritual quest, where all the souls of the world fly through seven spiritual states to seek their divine origin.
From yearning and lamentation of the first city, to passionate love of the second city, to pure ecstasy in the seventh city, the performance accompanies the audience in an exploration of the states of consciousness represented by this most profound tale.
Tickets: Standard £25, concessions £20
If you wish to book your places for the concert and the workshop please visit http://www.uniquecircle.co.uk. The tickets are also available to purchase at Istanbul Grill Restaurant in Cheadle.
Also in this location:
- Lectures on Persian and Turkish Spiritual Arts – October 9
- Sacred Dance Workshop – October 11
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