Egypt's tanoura puts kaleidoscopic spin on dervish tradition
Performance is a world away from the Unesco-listed whirling dervishes of Turkey
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Performance is a world away from the Unesco-listed whirling dervishes of Turkey
In a 500-year-old stone theatre in the Egyptian capital, two young dervishes spin ceaselessly. Slowly, then all at once, they are consumed in a flurry of vivid fabrics.
In a 500-year-old stone theatre in the Egyptian capital, young dervishes spin ceaselessly. The Egyptian kaleidoscopic performance is a world away from the UNESCO-listed whirling dervishes of Turkey, who trace their origins to the teachings of Sufi poet and mystic Jalal al-Din Rumi.
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In a 500-year-old stone theatre in the Egyptian capital, two young dervishes spin ceaselessly. Slowly, then all at once, they are consumed in a flurry of vivid