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 ...

“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 ...

KONYA, Turkey: Arms crossed over their hearts, hands resting on their shoulders, the dervishes start their dance. They turn on themselves, slowly sliding their hands along their bodies before raising ...

Sema is a popular and fascinating ritual dance which is performed by whirling dervishes. The dance originated in the 13th Century. The originator of Sema was poet and jurist Jalaluddin Muhammad Rumi.

When the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey dance, nobody applauds. It's not that audiences are unappreciative. On the contrary, the dervishes–from the Istanbul-based Mevlevi Order of Sufis–regularly sell ...

Turkey's whirling dervishes, followers of the 13th-century Islamic scholar, poet, and Sufi mystic, Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi, performed their Sema dance on Thursday to mark the 747th anniversary of ...

Turkey's mesmerising Whirling Dervishes are visiting Australia to commemorate the centenary of Gallipoli and celebrate the Year of Turkish Culture in Australia. Fourteen Dervishes and a Sufi music ...

(CNN)-- The dance of the Whirling Dervishes is not only a sight to behold for spectators, it is a sacred ritual for followers of this mystical and philosophical strand of Islam. The Order of Mevlevi, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whirling dervishes mark the 744th anniversary of the death of Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi, the father of Sufism who lived in the 13th ...