A video from the event is going viral, prompting viewers to ask: Can one public performance shift the boundaries of what’s ...

1. Introduction -- 2. The invention of an ideal female national dancer in twentieth-century Iran -- 3. Mutribs and their dancers: the counter-ideal performers of new Iran -- 4. The cabaret dancer in ...

A video from 2023 of a Georgian woman dancing in a rainy street in France has been miscaptioned online to describe it as depicting an Iranian woman mocking her government during its conflict with ...