Forbidden dance

When I was a ten-year-old schoolgirl in Tehran, one day a woman came into my classroom who looked different from every other teacher we had: she was young, beautiful, in very good shape, and dressed in very tight outfit. She said that she was going to teach dance. Full Story »

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by Lewyn Li - Jun. 27, 2009

A fascinating description of one Iranian woman's journey of learning, forgetting and re-learning dance, in Iran and then in Canada, told in her own voice.

In the midst of all the ostensibly objective coverage on Iran, it is refreshing to hear a personal account that is less politically oriented. In my opinion, one should be careful not to extrapolate too much from a single account.

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