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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.
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.
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 ...
Iranian folk music refers to the folk music transmitted through generations among the people of Iran, often consisting of tunes that exist in numerous variants. The variance of the folk music of Iran has often been stressed, in accordance to the cultural diversity of the country's ethnic and regional groups . [ 1 ]
A video of Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour, whose protest song "Baraye" received more than 40 million views within a day according to some estimates, has quickly spread across Iran and to the ...
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. [45] One of the cult's ceremonies involved the sacrifice of a bull followed by a dance that promoted vigor in life. [45]
In late November 2023 in the northern Iranian town of Rasht in Gilan province, a 70-year-old man at a fish market (Sadegh Bana Motajadded) was recorded dancing and singing to an Iranian folk song. [26] On 1 December, he posted a version of the video on his Instagram page which went viral, generating 80 million views by mid-December. Iranians ...
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