How cultural background shapes our perception of dance

An international research team led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt ...
In These Times

Iranian Culture Will Not Be Erased

Growing up, my aunties would joke that I was more Persian than my dad. He immigrated to Chicago in 1979 and deeply tried to assimilate, rendering me a certain type of diaspora Iranian with fragmented ...
PetaPixel

Photographs Reveal How Iranian Women Have Used Dance as Resistance

Hannah Darabi, excerpt from the video “Saeed”, from the series Follow the Beat, Why Don’t You Dance?, 2026 © Hannah Darabi An Iranian photographer explores how ...