TARAB | Trailer from open dance desi Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 51 sec
✓ Published: 18-Sep-2023

Description:
Accompanied by the complex rhythms of the virtuoso percussionist Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, seven dancers embody millennia-old movements. These dances, largely unexplored and in some places forbidden, are part of the pre-Islamic West Asian cultural heritage. They have been subjected to multiple forms of Eurocolonial and Islamic translation, in the course of which women were either degraded from primary carriers to sexualized oriental entertainment dancers or banned from the practice altogether. nn