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نی نامه, Song of the Reed / from Balkh with love -  World Premier
A new dance work by Sashar Zarif
Inspired by the first poem of the book of Masnavi by universally acclaimed Sufi Mowlana Jallalidin Balkhi’s (Rumi), Song of the Reed is a new dance work by Sashar Zarif, co-presented by Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre and Aga Khan Museum.
نی نامه, Song of the Reed is a ritual work that creates a space and time, devised to allow us to actively listen. This atmosphere is facilitated by a cast of six cross generational and multi-disciplinary artists, whose breaths and bodies collaboratively create hypnotizing river of dance and music.
Many people believe that the complete wisdom of Rumi, shared with the world through over 65,000 verses of mystical poetry in Farsi, is summarized in the first word of this opening poem, “Beshno/Listen”.
In this poem Mowlana (Rumi) compares the soul to a reed flute: hollow and empty of ego. And the fire-full sound of the reed as a cry of longing for the reed-bed it has been cut from.
This new work, Song of the Reed, is inspired by and draws from, music and dance from Rumi’s birth place, the ancient city of Balkh and the rich cultural tapestry of Afghanistan.
Zarif is joined by guest artist Nasrullah Tavakoli (Afghan Dutar and Vocal), Gunay Akca (Turkish Reed/Ney) and Sashar Zarif Dance Theatre’s  Mairéad Filgate, Kathia Wittenborn, Ethan Kim, Sully Malaeb Proulx, creative facilitator Katherine Duncanson and lighting designer Gabriel Cropley. 
Song of the Reed is presented in the contemporary style of Mugham which is an integrated practice Zarif has developed, that blends dance, music, and storytelling and which is inspired and informed by the Sufi and Shamanic rituals of Islamic societies. In it, words communicate the intellectual, music transmits the emotional, and dance conveys the physical.
Sashar Zarif has thirty years of ethnographic and cross-cultural creative field work in over forty countries across the globe. His years of investment in research have resulted in a unique approach to choreography and its creative process called “Moving Memories/Living Stories”.
This work was generously supported by Canada Council for the Arts
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