A video from 2023 of a Georgian woman dancing in a rainy street in France has been miscaptioned online to describe it as depicting an Iranian woman mocking her government during its conflict with ...

Hanging from a rope, a harness or a hoop, Iranian women are flocking to gyms to perform aerial dance and sharing videos of their routines on social media. Others are quietly practising another form of ...

A group of Iranian teen girls who shared a video dancing to Rema's 'Calm Down' song were reported to have been detained and pressured into making a confession. According to a tweet from the Twitter ...

1. Introduction -- 2. The invention of an ideal female national dancer in twentieth-century Iran -- 3. Mutribs and their dancers: the counter-ideal performers of new Iran -- 4. The cabaret dancer in ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Young women in postrevolutionary Iran used audacious acts of public dance, particularly during the past decade, to resist unjust gender-based laws and cultural norms that ...