When eminent techno DJ and producer Carl Cox embarks on his first North American tour in fifteen years, he’ll be making only a dozen stops, in Mexico, for the Electric Daisy Carnival, and in a handful ...

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation” — a cliché yet profound statement. This is certainly true when translating from one language to another. However, what if one translates languages beyond the ...

A unique dance performance is coming to Thalia Mara Hall on Wednesday, Sept. 23. But don’t expect eye-catching costumes, a spectacular light show and booming music through a state-of-the-art sound ...

The Konya Turkish Sufi Music Ensemble performed the ceremony of the Whirling Dervishes, also known as Sema, at the India Habitat Centre. The ceremony, started by Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi in the 13th ...

Mehmet Gunyeli’s body of black and white photographs, reduced to outline the Darvish dancers, haunt everyone who views them. His series Dervishers / Beliefs’ Dancing, executed in 2007, presents ...

If we could turn the clock back a millennium or two, we would find men and women dancing as part of their daily lives. Its purpose, though, might come as a surprise. Dancing used to be a primary ...

I’ve always wanted to see whirling dervishes perform the mystical Sufi ceremony known as a sema, in which their series of mesmerizing turns help them, and the audience, reach a state of nirvana. But ...

Rachael Kohn: Think of Turkey, and two things immediately come to mind: Turkish Delight and the Whirling Dervishes. Hello and welcome to The Ark. Today we're talking about the delightful Whirling ...