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Dancers on a piece of ceramic from Cheshmeh-Ali (Shahr-e-Rey), Iran, 5000 BC now at the Louvre. The people of the Iranian plateau have known dance in the forms of music, play, drama or religious rituals and have used instruments like mask, costumes of animals or plants, and musical instruments for rhythm, at least since the 6th millennium BC.
Elements deriving from Iran's folk and classical music have been combined and used also in the pop music. [1] Iranian folk music is categorized in various themes, and includes historical, social, religious, and nostalgic contexts. There are folk songs that apply to particular occasions, such as weddings and harvests, as well as lullabies ...
The earliest researched dance from Iran is a dance worshiping Mithra, the Zoroastrian angelic divinity of covenant, light, and oath, which was used commonly by the Roman Cult of Mithra. [38] One of the cult's ceremonies involved the sacrifice of a bull followed by a dance that promoted vigor in life. [38]
There are many dance styles common in Luri-inhabited areas. The most prevalent Luri dance styles are handkerchief dance, Chupi dances (SanguinSama; slow rhythm along with strike and fiddle, Se-Pa (three steps) dance that is performed faster than SanguinSama, and Du-Pa (Two steps) dance that is the fastest and the most exciting performance), and the stick dance (Çubâzi or Tarka-bâzi)(like ...
Choob Bazi/Dance (Sabzevar, Khorasan) What is known today as Choub Bazi is the continuation of the sword dance, which the ancient Iranians, the troops of Khorasan, in particular. used to strengthen and maintain the morale and defense readiness of their forces in peacetime.
Before leaving Iran he was a taxi driver in Tehran, after the Islamic Revolution he fled his country to build a new life as a dance teacher and performer in Los Angeles. [3] He released Workout and Dance Lesson #1, his first video of dance instruction, in the early 1980s. In 1987, he published Persian dance #2.
Traditionally, the music was played by a small band with one or two melodic instruments and a drum. In the 20th century, the music came to be orchestrated and dance movement and costuming gained a modernistic orientation to the West. In 1928, ballet came to Iran and impacted dance performance, adding a feeling of lightness and more delicate ...
The traditional dances of the Middle East (Arabic: رقص شرق أوسطي) (also known as Oriental dance) span a large variety of folk traditions throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. For detailed information on specific dances of the region, see the main entries as follows: