Hailed by the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Guide as “a singular figure of sacred theater and dance,” international performance artist, Zuleikha, will perform in A Mystical Night of the Soul, where she will take the audience on a magical night journey into the deep landscape of the soul through innovative dance, stirring stories, mystical poetry, original humor, inspirational music and a few extra surprises.
Zuleikha trained with master teachers in different world lineages, including American avant-garde dance, Indian Kathak, classical music of Afghanistan, and Balinese and Japanese Dance. She has developed her own contemporary movement technology based in traditional music and movement languages of East and West. Zuleikha uplifts theater audiences with her very funny, soul-stirring solo performances and collaborates with world musicians and poets, including the late African drum master Baba Olatungi, jazz guitarist Bruce Dunlap, cellist David Darling, vocalist/instrumentalist Jai Uttal, world percussionist Glen Velez, composer/cellist, Eugene Friesen, avant-garde composer/pianist Terry Riley, and Coleman Barks, poet and translator of Rumi.
Founder and Director of The Storydancer Project, Zuleikha is the recipient of the prestigious Humanitarian Award from Pediatric Nursing Journal, for her global work with women and children. In 2010 she received the Annual Award of Appreciation from the Images and Voices of Hope Summit for her outstanding work in promoting positive personal and social change.
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The show will take place at 7:30 pm The Mountaineers, 7700 Sand Point Way NE., Seattle, WA 98115. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com or at the door the evening of the event. The performance is part of a larger weekend conference being put on by Sufi Order International – Seattle called Awakening the Mystic Heart: A Special weekend of discourse, meditation, music and interfaith worship. For more information, visit http://www.soi-seattle.org/events.htm