Description

Practical Information

• Format: weekly online sessions
• Duration: 90 minutes,
• Language: English (with occasional Persian excerpts) Mondays: 18-19:30 Uhr
• Language: German (with occasional Persian excerpts) Mondays: 20-21:30 Uhr
• Open to: all bodies, all backgrounds
• No dance or literary background required

Pricing

If finances are a barrier, please write to us.

• Drop-in: €25
• Reduced Drop-in: €20 (for students)
• Supporter Drop-in: €40
• Monthly pass (4 sessions): €70
• Semester pass (12 sessions): €180

If finance is a barrier, feel free to reach out. Accessibility matters.

What Is This Gathering?

This weekly online series weaves together reading, reflection, and movement.

At the center is The Conference of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar — a foundational work of Persian literature that speaks through poetry, metaphor, and philosophy. Each session focuses on a theme drawn from the text, such as searching, doubt, devotion, loss, transformation, or unity.

Alongside reading and reflection, we explore simple, guided movement inspired by Persian flow, rhythm, and contemplative Eastern practices. Movement is gentle, accessible, and offered as a way to let the words settle in the body — not as performance or choreography.

You do not need prior knowledge of Persian literature.
You do not need dance experience.

How a Session Unfolds

Each weekly session includes:

• a short introduction to the theme
• shared reading of selected passages (in English/German, with occasional Persian for sound and rhythm)
• moments of silence and reflection
• gentle, guided movement inspired by Persian and Eastern philosophies
• optional sharing and conversation

You are always free to move, rest, listen, or simply be present.

Why Reading and Movement?

Persian literature was never meant to live only on the page.
Its language carries rhythm, breath, and movement.

By reading slowly and moving gently, we allow philosophy to become experience — something felt, not explained. Over time, the text unfolds as a living dialogue between word, body, and presence.