Iran's top female dancer detained with students on charges of dancing in public
Ali Akbar Dareini,
Associated Press
December 26, 2003
TEHRAN, IRAN -- Iran's best-known female dancer and 24 of her students have been detained for dancing in public -- for an all-female audience, her husband said Thursday.
Although there are no written laws against dancing, Iran's hard-line clerics have banned the activity, which they consider a promotion of moral corruption.
Farzaneh Kaboli and 24 of her students were detained Wednesday night as they were performing folk dances on the second night of a two-week program at Tehran's prestigious Vahdat Hall, said her husband, Hadi Marzban.
He said the students were freed Thursday after signing statements pledging not to perform again, but Kaboli was taken to prison.
"It was a program of rhythmical movements displaying folk dance of various provinces of Iran to an all-female audience. The program had been authorized by the Culture Ministry," Marzban said. Kaboli has not yet been charged.
Kaboli's dance programs, available on bootlegged video, are widely watched by Iranian women.
http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4287458.html"It was a program of rhythmical movements displaying folk dance of various provinces of Iran to an all-female audience."
"Iran's hard-line clerics have banned the activity, which they consider a promotion of moral corruption."
WoW!!! - How Racey and Risque can you Get????
I think I've been corrupted just Reading about it