Ney Nava Ensemble
dance,dance performance, middle eastern dance, persian dance, dance with live music, persian dance, sufism, Rumi, persian arts, iranian arts, dance instruction, percussion, international dance, middle eastern music, cross-cultural arts
Fine Persian classical and contemporary dance since 1994.
Ney Nava's artistic director, Shida Pegahi, founded the company in order to preserve traditional Persian dance as well as to expand dance form of Iran with creative new choreography.
Ney Nava has performed at hundreds of events in dozens of venues, in and out of Southern California, for audiences as large as 6,000 (annual Mehregan Festival) and as small as an intimate private gathering. Bringing an extensive and varied repertoire, Ney Nava is a company of professional dancers and musicians which adapts easily to most concert situations.
Shida Pegahi has also choreographed video and film shoots for independents as well as commercial fashion clients such as Guess?, Jonathan Martin, Hype and others.
Critic Lewis Segal of the L.A. Times has called Ney Nava's dances
"gracious" and "adroitly choreographed."
Halparkeh, a Persian Dance about Freedom
Ney Nava has performed locally and nationally, for many arts institutions and enterprises, among them the Getty Museum, Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA, Coca-Cola, Mehregan Festival, International Dance & Music Festival/Wadsworth Theatre, Dance Roots Festival, Museum of Art and Science Melbourne, Florida, Los Angeles Theater Center, Wilshire Ebell Theatre and others.
Ney Nava can create a custom program for you in either traditional or contemporary styles, or any combination of the two, with live or taped music, depending on your event, stage size and capabilities.The company performs with as many as twenty dancers and musicians for large festivals and shows. A small number of performers ranging from two or more makes itself available for more intimate performance situations. Ney Nava dancers have both classical and modern dance training.
classical dance, traditional Persian dance performance, middle eastern dance, persian dance, dance with live music, sufi, sufism, Rumi, persian arts, iranian arts, dance instruction, Ghajar, mystic dance, folk dancing, percussion, international dance, middle eastern music, cross-cultural arts, modern Persian dance, internatiodance, middle eastern music, cross-cultural arts, iranian dance, whirling dervishes