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Alternative dance (also known as indie dance [4] or underground dance in the United States [5]) is a musical genre that mixes alternative rock with electronic dance music. Although largely confined to the British Isles, it has gained American and worldwide exposure through acts such as New Order in the 1980s and the Prodigy and in the 1990s.
Dances in Iran or Iranian dances (Persian:رقص ایرانی) are dance styles indigenous to Iran. Genres of dance in Iran vary depending on the area, culture, and language of the local people, and can range from sophisticated reconstructions of refined court dances to energetic folk dances.
Persian Wikipedia ( Persian: ویکیپدیای فارسی, romanized : Wīkipediāī Fārsī) is the Persian language version of Wikipedia. The Persian version of Wikipedia was started in December 2003.
Jamshid, a king in Iranian mythology, is credited with the "invention" of music. [8] Dancers and musicians depicted on a 5th-7th century Sasanian bowl. 7th-century Sasanian musicians plate, kept at the British Museum.
Classical Persian dance is a style of concert dance which evolved from courtroom dance. The Qajar dynasty, which reigned from 1795 to 1925, had an important influence on Persian dance. In this period, a style of dance began to be called "classical Persian dance".
Dec 15, 1993 · The most joyous style of dance was “the Persian” (Gk. Persikón; Xenophon, Cyropaedia 8.4.12), a military dance in which the performer carried two shields, which he clashed together, “crouching down and then rising up again, all the time keeping to the music of the flute” (Xenophon, Anabasis 6.1.10). Once a year, at the feast of Mithra (OIr.
