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Known for her innovative movement vocabulary, Banafsheh is one of the few bearers of the authentic Persian dance form in the world, an innovator of Sufi dance previously only performed by men. She is one of the only dance artists in the world who has mastered a fusion of high level dance technique with spirituality. Banafsheh’s dance is what “for the first time one could call contemporary or modern Persian Dance– a dance with its own artistic language, neither Eastern nor Western.
