Sufi dervishes have a mystical, almost esoteric existence in popular thought, which associates them with the whirling dance movement. One such performance comes to Mumbai, organised by the Turkish ...

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 ...

The product of decades of work and the creation of new technology, this weekend The Market Hall theatre showcases a multimedia Dervish and Flamenco dance performance. Creator, designer, and ...

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 ...

Appearing in tourism promotion films and at Eurovision song contests, their distinctive circular dancing has never been more widely publicised. Some say what has been happening of late is a sign of a ...

Who would believe that the star attraction at a fashion event was a 27-year-old male dancer? Incredulous as it sounds, hold a public poll amongst the attendees at the recently concluded Bridal Couture ...

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 ...

"You're like a pack of whirling dervishes" my mother would exclaim, when the boisterous behaviour of her brood occasionally got out of hand. "Why don't you settle down and read a book?" If we ever ...

Dubai-based Pakistani-British artist Faiza Shaikh’s painting, “Dervish Dance”, was selected by major auction-house Christie’s for their upcoming Contemporary Pakistani Art Now Auction on May 1 at Mina ...

The reporter wrote that the painting depicts three ‘women’ dancing the dervish or whirling dance, which is absolutely wrong. This dance is something so unique and so special done by men only with ...