Welcome to Sufi Dance
Sufi dance, originally called Samâ in Persian and Arabic, and Sema in Turkish, is known as the Whirling Dervish. This dance is open to all as a practice.
Rana Gorgani, a Sufi artist, invites you into her rich world, inherited from the arts of Sufism and Persian culture.
Discover her artistic and spiritual vision of the whirling dervish dance.
She invites you to follow her teaching through seminars and Sufi dance workshops open to everyone, as well as evening events with an intercultural and universal perspective.
Individual sessions are also offered, along with an international UNESCO-certified program of study.
Whirling dance, or semâ, is far more than a movement. It is prayer, offering, dissolution. Rooted in the Sufi tradition, it embodies the quest for union with the Divine, the search for spiritual ecstasy through the rotating body.
The dervish does not whirl to escape the world, but to become more deeply rooted in it, in another way. Each step, each turn is a silent praise, a way of shedding the ego, of silencing the mind so that only the soul may speak. The ground becomes an axis, the heart becomes the center.
