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KIDS’ PROGRAMS
KIDS’ PROGRAMS

TEACHING

KIDS’ PROGRAMS

By chara|2019-03-14T19:10:50+00:00November 13th, 2012|Categories: TEACHING|Tags: abroad, alumni, appreciate, Artist in Residence, arts, atmosphere, awareness, camps, children, children of all ages, circumstances, city, collaboration, common, common human inheritance, cultures, dance, diversity, diversity of cultures, elementary schools, enthusiasm, Fulbright, gifts, high schools, human, India, inheritance, innovative, Inspirational, inspirational gifts, Israel, Japan, joyful, joyful atmosphere, joyous, Kolkata, love, makeshift classrooms, movement, movment arts, nationalities, New Mexico, Nobel Peace Prize, Norway, orphanages, outdoors, Peace Jam Gathering, people, performance, performs, recognize, rhythms, schools, South America, Sri Lanka, state, stories, Teach Peace to Reach Peace, teaching, teenagers, thousands, together, travels, United States, US, villages, winners, wisdom, work, works, works with groups, world, young, youth, youths, Zuleikha|

Zuleikha works with thousands of children and teenagers of many nationalities in the US and abroad. Her enthusiasm and love of dance and innovative use of world [...]

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SOLO PERFORMANCE
SOLO PERFORMANCE

PERFORMANCE

SOLO PERFORMANCE

By chara|2015-10-29T02:47:20+00:00November 13th, 2012|Categories: PERFORMANCE|Tags: ancients, animals, anyone, apprenticed, art, art of dance and music, artist, audiences, aural, beautiful, believed, Coleman Barks, combining, comedy, common, common humanity, creates, creative expression, dance, dancer, dances, delight, Diana Skafte, Diane Skafte, drummer, dynamism, embodiment, evening, experience, expressive, expressivity, feelings, flow, form, funny, Glen Velez, grief, humanity, humor, Inspirational, intelligent, interested, journey, joy, joy of being human, life, life itself, living traditions, longing, many traditions, master, master world drummer, meaning, mesmerizing, mimicry, mirrors, more, movement, moving, music, myth, myth and meaning, nature, necessary, new, new realms, one-woman performances, Pacifica Graduate Institute, people, performance, performer, performing, performing artist, Ph.d., pioneer, pioneered, poet, powerful, presentations, presentations. apprenticed, provocative, realms, rhythm, Rumi, silliness, slender, Solo Performance THE DANCER IS IN THE DANCE, soul, soul-stirring, sparkle, spellbound, spirit, stage, stories, story, storydancer, storytelling, translator, transports, unique, very funny, very intelligent, visual, way, whirlwind, world, world lore, Zuleikha|

THE DANCER IS IN THE DANCE “Zuleikha…The comedy, grief, longing, silliness, and joy of being human come through her beautiful, very intelligent, very funny presentations. She has [...]

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COLLABORATION
COLLABORATION

PERFORMANCE

COLLABORATION

By chara|2015-10-29T02:48:22+00:00November 13th, 2012|Categories: PERFORMANCE|Tags: 2006, Aaron, Aaron Stern, African, art, art becoming, art forms, art of listening, artistic, artistic conversation, avant-garde, Baba Olatungi, Barks, being, borders, Bruce Dunlap, cellist, Coleman Barks, collaboration, community, composer, concert, conversation, create, creating, Crossing, crossing the borders, cultures, Darling, David Darling, deep, deep delight, delight, depth, different, different art forms, djembe, djembe drum, drum, duet, eclecticists, ecumenical space, Emergence Concert, Eugene Friesen, everlasting whirl, experience, falsetto, falsetto fits, feeling, fits, form, fusionary, Glen Velez, glow, great, guitarist, humor, inside, inside of music, instrumentalist, itself, Jai Uttal, jazz, Kitaro, Kitary, late, listening, love, love of music, magic, many, many cultures, Mark Breslav, Mark Breslev, master, moment, motion, movement, music, musician, musicians, myself, mystic, mystic twang, new, New York, open, open conversation, oud, percussionist, performance, performances, pianist, poet, poets, prayers, Rahim Alhaj, rehearsing, revealing, Rumi, Ryan, Shakespeare, simultaneously, sound, space, spinning, St. John the Divine, St. John The Divine Concert, surprise, Terry Riley, together, training, translator, twang, venues, virtuosity, vocalist, way, whirl, wide variety, world, world musicians, Zuleikha|

Throughout the year, in a wide variety of venues, Zuleikha joins together with world musicians and poets to make magic. These performances create a glow of humor, [...]

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RUMI CONCERT
RUMI CONCERT

PERFORMANCE

RUMI CONCERT

By chara|2018-02-22T01:12:20+00:00November 13th, 2012|Categories: PERFORMANCE|Tags: 13th century, all time, Amherst, animates, appealing, arrestingly passionate, artists, Asian Dance and Music Program, audience, audiences, beautiful, beauty, become known, being, CA, caressingly beautiful, churches, Coleman Barks, collaboration, comments, concert, conferences, countries, creating, dance, David Darling, Director, diverse, East, East and West, ecstatic, ecstatic poet, enchanted, English-speaking, enhanced, Eugene Friesen, evening, feast, Fine Arts Center, footwork, genius, Glen, Glen Velez, glorious dance, greatest poet, guide, half of the world, heard, Herbst Theater, Herbst Theatre, home, Hospice Center, in sync, ingenious, Institute of Noetic Sciences, inventive, inviting, Jai Uttal, journey, Lensic, life, linking, lovesick, lovesick soul's journey, lyrical, magic, magic of dance, Medical Conference on Body and Soul, MI, movements, moving, multidimensional, music, musicians, NC, NM, NY, of Rumi, Pacifica Graduate Institute, passionate, patterns, people, performance, performances, performs, poems of Rumi, poet, poet Robert Bly, poetry, power, Princeton University Chapel, Ranjanaa Devi, rapture, recently, revered, rhythmic, rhythmic footwork, Robert Bly, Rumi, Rumi Concert, Rumi Concert The Rumi Concert, Rumi dancer, Rumi’s poetry, same place, Santa Fe Performing Arts Center, settings, Shakespeare, song, soul, spiritual, spiritual power, St. John the Divine, State of the World Forum, story, storydancer, storytelling, stunning, style, take place, tala, tala patterns, thank you, The Fine Arts Center, The Lensic, theaters, tradition, traditions, translator, universal, University of Mass, West, work, world, Zuleikha|

RESERVE YOUR COMPLIMENTARY (FREE) TICKET FOR THE RUMI CONCERT AT THE WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL MARCH 15, 2018. Not to be missed! […]

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BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND

ZULEIKHA

BACKGROUND

By chara|2015-10-29T02:43:24+00:00November 13th, 2012|Categories: ZULEIKHA|Tags: “The Dancer is in the Dance, ” Susan Skeele, Afghan musician, Afghanistan, Ali Akbar College of Music, Ali Akbar College of Music and Dance, ancient technologies, Anna Halprin, art of movement, artistic expression, artistic innovation, Asia, avant-garde dance, awareness, Bali, Balinese dance, body, Chitresh Das, choreographer, classical, classical music, Coleman Barks, collaboration, college, commonalities, connection, containing wisdom, creative expressions, cultural interchange, cultures, dance, Divine, dynamic creativity, Eastern and Western traditions, educator, esoteric therapeutic movement, expression in movement, foundations of Chinese martial arts, healing and movement, humanitarian, humor, Indian music, inner experience, inspires, intensive study, international, International storydancer, interpreter of Rumi, Issue 85 Summer 2013, Japan, Japanese dance, Kathak, master teachers, mind, movement, movement language, movement techniques, multicultural training, music, musicians, natural movement, North India, North Indian, performance, performer, poet, poetry, raga, rejuvenation, rhythm, Rumi Concert, San Francisco Bay Area, spirit, story, storytelling, Sufi, synthesis of dance, teacher, temples, the roots of inner space, training, unique, Ustad Hashim Chishti, Ustad Hashim Chisti, wellness, Western, whirling, world-class, Zuleikha|

International storydancer, performer, educator and humanitarian. Zuleikha grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, a center for cultural interchange and artistic innovation. She studied Western classical [...]

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PERFORMER
PERFORMER

ZULEIKHA

PERFORMER

By chara|2019-06-21T17:40:10+00:00November 13th, 2012|Categories: ZULEIKHA|Tags: abroad, Afghanistan, African, American avant-garde dance, art of movement, artists, award-winning, Baba Olatungi, Balinese dance, cellist, classical, Coleman Barks, collaborated, collaborations, collaborative, composer, concerts, conferences, countless faces, dance, David Darling, drum, dynamic creativity, Eastern, Edinburgh Guide, effortlessly through space, electric, exercise, Glen Velez, healing, health, horizon, Indian Kathak, instrumentalist, International performer, Jai Uttal, Japanese dance, life, master, master teachers, mistress, movement, music, musicians, myths, performances, performer, poets, rejuvenation through movement, renowned poet and translator of Rumi, Robert Bly, Rumi Concert, sacred, sacred theater, schools, singular figure, solo, solo performances, solo performer, soul-stirring, stories, stories and myths, story, Taoist traditions of China, teacher, Terry Riley, theater, theater audiences, therapeutic, Tracy Silverman, traditions, translator of Rumi, uplifts, US, US and abroad, violinist, vocalist, weave, wellness educator, Western, work, world cultures, world musicians, world percussionist, Zuleikha|

International performer, wellness educator, and teacher in the art of movement and story, Zuleikha inspires dynamic creativity and rejuvenation through movement. Zuleikha’s training comes from years of [...]

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