Realms of Dance®

Old Man and The Sea
2012-07-28 | YB Chavan Auditorium, Mumbai
No License Productions presents the famous Sufi fable by Ernst Hemmingway – The Old Man & The Sea. Enacted by Tom Alter, dance renditions by Zia Nath. YB Chavan Auditorium, Cuff Parade, Mumbai.

Jahan-e-Khusrao
2012-03-04 - 2012-03-10 | Lucknow, India
World Sufi Music Festival by Muzaffar Ali.
Sufi Splendour Performance by Zia Nath & Smitalay.

Celebration Eve
2012-01-29 | Goa
Sufi Splendour by Zia Nath Live music by Bikramjit Singh at Cidade De Goa.

Ahlaan Masala Awards
2011-12-22 | Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai.
Sufi Splendour by Zia Nath at Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai.

Tridha Annual Mela
2011-12-17 | Mumbai, India
Sufi Splendour by Zia Nath at Tridha School, Mumbai.

Sufi Splendour Performance
2011-10-01 08:00 - 17:00 (Asia/Kolkata)
Good Earth Golkonda Collection Launch, Mumbai, India

Golkonda Launch
2011-10-01 | Mumbai, India
Sufi Splendour by Zia Nath at Good Earth.

Evening classes for Beginners
2011-09-16 08:00 - 2011-09-18 17:00
Sufi Whirling and The Sacred Dances Workshop Bandra -W, Mumbai, India

Intensive Dance & Awareness Workshop
2011-09-08 08:00 - 17:00
Sufi Whirling and The Sacred Dances at PLUSH, Kolkatta, India

Celebration Eve with Sufi Odissi
2011-02-01 | Blue Sea, Mumbai
An evening event of sacred dance & music celebrations, Zia presented a solo performance of Sufi Odissi and Sufi Whirling.

Kala Ghoda Arts Festival
2011-02-01 | Art Loft, Mumbai
Zia & her students performed at this prestigious annual arts festival in Mumbai, presenting Sufi Splendour™, with Gurdjieff Sacred Dances, Sufi Odissi Fusion and the Whirling Sema.

Corporate Event for INS Vyasya
2011-01-30 - 2011-01-31 | Four Seasons Hotel, Mumbai
Zia was invited to welcome the guests at this prestigious national event with an opening of the Sufi Splendour™ Whirling Odissi Dance in a solo performance.

Launch of Loomba Foundation Charitable Trust with Cherie Blair
2010-12-01 | Willingdon, Mumbai
This evening was dedicated to raising funds for underprivileged widowed women and children. Supported by the special guest of the evening Cherie Blair (wife of UK ex PM Tony Blair), Zia presented Sufi Splendour™ with her students of The Sacred Dances Workshops. Cherie Blair was deeply touched with the performance, being a lover of Mevlana Rumi and the Whirling Dervishes, Cherie personally complimented and thanked Zia for the evening’s presentation.

Tasneem-e-Ishq (Sufi Festival)
2010-10-15 | Sophia Bhabha Auditorium
A presentation of Sufi Odissi and Sufi Whirling to Indian Classical and new age Sufi music, presented by Zia, a solo performance.

Vaishnovi Kala Kshetra Annual Dance Show
2010-10-06 - 2010-10-08 | RavindraNatya Mandir
Classical Odissi Dance Annual Concert by the students of Asha Nambiar of Vaishnovi Kala Kshetra. Zia along with other students performed in the classical genre of Odsissi Dances.

Arts In Motion Foundation (AIMF) - Dance with Joy
2010-08-18 - 2010-08-20 | Arts In Motion Foundation (AIMF) – Dance with Joy,
AIMF organized a concert to support the Autistic children’s community in our city. The concert was a confluence of dances from all genres – rap, jazz, bollywood, b-boying, kathak fusion and Zia presented a Sufi Odissi Dance of Odissi dances merging into Sufi Whirling, in a solo performance.

Sufi Whirling Prayer Ceremony
2010-04-28 | Blue Sea, Mumbai,
Blue Sea, Mumbai,28 April 2010.

Bodhgaya Buddhist Festival
2010-02-09 | Bihar
Presentation of Sufi Splendour™ at the Bodhgaya Buddhist Festival, a confluence of sacred dances by Zia & her dance troupe accompanied with live music rendered by Bikramjit Singh and company. Being amongst an audience of a thousand people, most of them buddhist monks from India, Tibet and South East Asia, the show received much appreciation for its meditative qualities.

Kartik Poornima Festival
2009-10-15 - 2009-10-17 | Jag Mandir Island Palace – Udaipur
Zia presented Sufi Splendour™- a confluence of diverse art forms, devoted to the unifying path of love, the Sufis. Accompanying the dances was BikramJit Singh and his team of musicians rendering live music from the Turkish and Persian genre. Renowned theatre artists from Mumbai recited poems and songs of Jalal-Ud-Din Rumi along with the dances and live music.
Organized by the Maharana of Mewar Charitable Foundation (MMCF), Udaipur, the Kartik Poornima is a prestigious event for the Royal Family of Mewar, celebrating this festival every year with dance and music performances.

Vaishnovi Kala Kshetra Annual Dance Show
2009-10-14 - 2009-10-15 | RavindraNatya Mandir
Presentation of Sufi Splendour™at the Bodhgaya Buddhist Festival, a confluence of sacred dances by Zia & her dance troupe accompanied with live music rendered by Bikramjit Singh and company. Being amongst an audience of a thousand people, most of them buddhist monks from India, Tibet and South East Asia, the show received much appreciation for its meditative qualities.

Dancing Flute
2009-05-21 - 2009-05-22 | Mumbai & Pune
Music album launch of BikramJit Singh – The Dancing Flute was launched by Kanakia Art Foundation in Mumbai & Pune. Zia was invited to present her dances along with guest artists – Flautist Yoko from Japan and Spanish Guitarist Benize from the USA. Zia rendered an Odissi dance solo for the title track – Dancing Flute and a whirling duet for a Turkish Sufi recital – The Silent Mountain.

Sufi Splendour™ for the enlightened teacher Anandmurthi Gurumaa
2009-03-09 - 2009-03-10 | Gurumaa Ashram, Delhi
The birthday celebrations of enlightened mystic Smt. Anandmurthi Gurumaa was brought in by the presentation of the Sufi Splendour™ to an audience of 1000 disciples visiting the ashram from around the country and internationally. Gurumaa is herself a devotional singer of Sufi songs and Rumi poetry. The performance was conducted in Hindi with Gurumaa’s Hindi transalations of Rumi poetry and songs as the backdrop to some of the dance recitals. Gurumaa was touched with the performances and completed the evening with a talk about whirling, its principles and philosophy, the stillness behind the movement and significance of whirling from a meditator’s viewpoint. The evening concluded with a short silent meditation followed by celebrations.

Sufi Splendour™ for the spiritual master & teacher Morari Bapu
2009-02-17 - 2009-02-18 | Chaparani Ashram, Raipur – Madhya Pradesh
At a large spiritual gathering organized by the foundation of Morari Bapu at Champarani Ashram in Raipur, Madhya Pradesh. A week long festival saw artists from around the country. Zia was invited to present the Sufi Splendour™. The show was well received by an audience of about 2000 people. Morari Bapu in his own words offered the following comment on the performance The dancers, the dances and the entire program carried the quality of ‘sattvic and energy’ – purity! This entire performance was conducted in Hindi.

Vaishnovi Kala Kshetra Annual Dance Show
2008-10-15 - 2008-10-17 | RavindraNatya Mandir
Classical Odissi Dance Annual Concert by the students of AshaNambiar of Vaishnovi Kala Kshetra. Zia along with other students performed in the classical genre of Odissi Dances.

Kanakia Art Show
2008-09-24 - 2008-09-25 | Prince of Wales Museum
The Kanakia Art Foundation organized a dance event to showcase diverse dance forms. Zia and her team of dancers presented The Sacred Dances – exhibiting the Gurdjieff Dances, The Sufi Whirling Dances and Odissi Dances. The theme of the evening was Spiritual Oneness.

Isha Celebration
2007-12-31 | Isha Yoga Center, Coimbatore
On the invitation of the respected mystic and yogi Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev, Zia and her team had the honour to perform The Sacred Dances at the Isha Yoga Center for the New Year’s Eve celebrations. This presentation comprised of Gurdjieff Sacred Dances and Sufi Whirling Dances. Performing and enthralling an audience of more than 5000 devotees.

Truth Dancing - Gurdjieff Intensive Presentation
2003-01-12 - 2003-01-14 | Osho Meditation Resort, Pune
The Gurdjieff Awarness Intensive is a 4 week workshop conducted by the Osho International Meditation Resort which culminates in a public presentation of The Gurdjieff Sacred Dances, by all the participants of the work. This workshop and presentation was facilitated and organized by Zia Nath and Jivan Sunder.
