Dance
Your Beloved lives where you live - just beyond that wall.
And you wandering in the desert... what do you seek? - Rumi
Maura Tousignant is a movement artist who focuses on marrying the ecstatic and the sober and introducing the audience to the experience of trance. Maura has performed dance professionally on both coasts of the United States and in India. Maura offers the performance of movement meditation as a sacred practice, through Sufi whirling and trance dances. In the lineage of master dancer Banafsheh Sayyad, Maura offers Dance of Oneness® as a performer and teacher.
Performance availability: private events, festivals, and theaters.
Teaching availability: private sessions and public workshops.
Dance of Oneness
After studying with master dancer Banafsheh Sayyad for seven years, Maura became the first certified teacher and performer of the Dance of Oneness® . The Dance of Oneness® draws from Sufi trance dance rituals and Sama (Sufi whirling), Persian dance, flamenco, Middle Eastern tribal dances, Tai Chi, and contemporary dance
Dance performances
Footage of performances:
Hayy, original choreography, in collaboration with musician Eskandar Alexander Meimand; Venice, CA:
on tour with the American Sufi Project; Kolkata, India:
For more, subscribe to Maura's account on YouTube: movementfrommaura.
For glimpses of rehearsals and daily practices, go to Instagram and follow @movementfrommaura.