Archive for the ‘Dance’ Category

March 5th, 2010
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Categories: Dance, Humour, Politics, Tehrangeles, Television, Typography, Women

Celin Bayad Berakhseh

January 3rd, 2010
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Categories: Dance, Film & Video, Humour, Politics

Parviz Khatibi — Seh Mullah (1985)

Uploaded to UbuWeb via Bidoun: http://ubu.com/film/khatibi_mullah.html

December 3rd, 2009
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Categories: Athletics, Dance, Sexy

Beshkan! (1991)

September 22nd, 2009
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Categories: Dance, Music, People, Queer, Sexy, Women

Did you know Ramesh is a Lesbian?

Just makes this clip 10000000x better. Pretty girls frolicking about and all. The unmistakable glimmer in her eyes at 2:02. The curious need to bring Nozar Arandi back on stage to tend to the boisterous babes. So good.

Download studio version of Asmar Asmar here

June 29th, 2009
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Categories: Dance, Madars, Music, Sexy, Television, Women

Wait, yes it does…

March 15th, 2009
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Categories: Dance, Drugs, Film & Video, Music, People, Science, Tehrangeles, Television, Women

Actual First Iranian Woman in Space

(best song)

March 13th, 2009
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Categories: Dance, Drugs, Madars, Music, Sexy, Women

Don’t drop the bong, Madar (c-walk)

November 2nd, 2008
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Foroozan — Raghaseh Shar

shiimera (5 months ago)
Really Sexy Woman, congratulation to Iranin for a such beautiful Gem.

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Directed by Shapour Gharib
Voice provided by Ahdieh
Download full movie here (wmv)

July 8th, 2008
Categories: Art, Calligraphy, Children's, Dance, Events, Film & Video, Graphics, Illustration, Literature, Music, Theatre, Women

Tirgan Cultural Festival Toronto

Tirgan Festival July 17 - 20, 2008 — Harbourfront Centre

Three day Persian cultural festival featuring the likes of Mohammad Reza Lotfi (above video) from music, Dariush Mehruji, Abbas Kiarostami and Rakhshan Bani-Etemad from cinema, Morteza Momayez and Farshid Meshghali from design, Aydin Aghdashloo from the arts and many many more. Most events are free!

May 30th, 2008
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Categories: Academia, Art, Dance, History, Music

Shiraz Arts Festival


Farah Diba greets John Cage and Merce Cunningham at the 1972 festival. (Photo: Cunningham Dance Foundation Archive)

Article Abstract:

Iran in the 1970s was host to an array of electronic music and avant-garde arts. In the decade prior to the Islamic revolution, the Shiraz Arts Festival provided a showcase for composers, performers, dancers and theater directors from Iran and abroad, among them Iannis Xenakis, Peter Brook, John Cage, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Merce Cunningham. A significant arts center, which was to include electronic music and recording studios, was planned as an outgrowth of the festival. While the complex politics of the Shah’s regime and the approaching revolution brought these developments to an end, a younger generation of artists continued the festival’s legacy.

(Gluck, Robert. “The Shiraz Arts Festival: Western Avant-Garde Arts in 1970s Iran”. Leonardo 40.1 (2001) 20-28)

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Download full text journal article (with some great black and white photographs) here.