Persian Dance | A Graceful Iranian Movement Language

Persian Dance | A Graceful Iranian Movement Language

• Enhance your fluidity and grace in your everyday life through the practice of this beautiful dance form.

• Enjoy moving in an intricate, graceful way using a world-renowned and definitive Iranian dance technique.

• Foster a strong mind and body connection through layered movement patterns that will challenge your coordination.

About the Course

Go at your own pace in this student-centered course which accommodates all types of learners. Iranian Dance Academy instructors, Sharhzad and Delsie, will guide you through a course that builds from simple movement vocabulary to challenging movement patterns.

• Learn to embody cultural aesthetic elements through movement exercises while connecting with traditional music.

• Experience joy and vitality and leave feeling graceful and serene with this brief, but powerful immersion into Iranian dance.

• The lessons are organized into short, easily accessible sections, while maintaining a smooth flow throughout the course.

What is Iranian Dance?

This dance style is characterized by fluid arm and hand movements that embody iconic shapes and images found in the aesthetics of Iranian art, and distinct cultural nuances and social mannerisms. Graceful body lines reflect the rich aesthetics of Persian/Iranian culture. Rhythmic foot patterns texturize the movement and connect it with the music.

Note: The terms “Persian” and “Iranian” are often used synonymously and there is some confusion and much discourse around the appropriate term for this dance genre. In the West this dance style is often referred to as Persian classical dance, however, in Iran it is called Iranian Dance.

Experience this elegant and unique Middle Eastern dance. Technique, movement patterns, choreography and pure joy.

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What you will learn

• Foundational principles of Iranian dance: body line, wrist motion, hand shape, relationship between the hand and gaze
• Technique: arm and hand movements, shoulder isolations, basic turn, foot placement and patterns
• Layering Movements: Learn how to layer simple movements to create more complex movement patterns within the style of Iranian dance

Rating: 5

Level: Intermediate Level

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Iranian Dance Academy