Articles - Dance, identity and religion in the Pakistani context - Sheema Kermani

I am a performing artist, a dancer from a country that banned all public performances of classical dancing by women on stage and all other media in 1981. The official document stated that dance was "obscenity and nudity" and against the religion of Islam. A whole generation has grown up being told that not simply dance, but all "culture" is a dirty word and since then all performing arts have been discouraged in Pakistan especially dance.

The official ban exists even today and those of us, who continue to defy it, do so at the risk of our lives! 

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