{"id":1117,"date":"2013-03-05T03:04:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T08:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/03\/05\/whirling-dervishes-to-perform-march-14\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:09:07","slug":"whirling-dervishes-to-perform-march-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/whirling-dervishes-to-perform-march-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Whirling Dervishes to perform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/banner21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5842 lazyload\" title=\"banner2\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/banner21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"694\" height=\"108\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 694px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 694\/108;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Furman University hosts the world famous Whirling Dervishes from Turkey in a performance Thursday, March 14 at 7 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on campus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDance of Colours\u201d is open to the public and presented by the South Carolina Dialogue Foundation and Furman\u2019s Office of the Chaplains. Tickets are $40 for orchestra, $25 general admission and $15 for students.<\/p>\n<p>Ten Whirling Dervishes present a meditation in motion, and are accompanied by mystical music consisting of flutes, strings, chorus, percussion, and verses by 13<sup>th<\/sup> century Persian poet, Rumi. By revolving in harmony with all things in nature and transcending ego, the dervishes symbolize a spiritual journey to Divine Love. The performance is part of Turkish Sufi customs, history and culture.<\/p>\n<p>During intermission, Turkish calligrapher Aydin Cayir will present &#8220;Art of Calligraphy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The celebration is suitable for all ages. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/event\/0E00498381093A73?artistid=804440&amp;majorcatid=10002&amp;minorcatid=32\">link<\/a>. For more information, contact Christina Bell, executive assistant at the South Carolina Dialogue Foundation, <a href=\"mailto:cbell@scdialogue.org\">cbell@scdialogue.org<\/a> or 864.991.8089.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University hosts the world famous Whirling Dervishes from Turkey in a performance Thursday, March 14 at 7 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on campus. \u201cDance of Colours\u201d is open to the public and presented by the South Carolina Dialogue Foundation and Furman\u2019s Office of the Chaplains. Tickets are $40 for orchestra, $25 general admission and $15 for students.\u00a0The performance is part of Turkish Sufi customs, history and culture. During intermission, Turkish calligrapher Aydin Cayir will present &#8220;Art of Calligraphy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}