Banafsheh Amiri

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Banafsheh Amiri is an Iranian dancer, choreographer, and instructor. She has launched her own method in classical Iranian dancing for more than sixteen years as well as learning various stylish dance customs from all over the world. She is well experienced in Iranian classical, contemporary and folkloric, Latin-salsa Cubana, tango and flamenco dances. As of learning Iranian classical dance, she wisely figured out about the importance of learning Iranian traditional music to design new movements and she started to get trained as a vocalist (Radif Avazi) in 2013. She has BA in fine art (Tehran Alzahran Univ. 2006) and MA in Interior design (University of Brighton, 2009). Banafsheh devoted herself to innovative choreography to boost the vocabulary of Iranian dance. Her unique method includes delicate movements for expressing emotional motifs, elegance, femininity, and natural elements of Persian women.  To promote the methodology, Banafsheh founded Miniature Dance Academy and established Miniature Dance Group which held several performances for women in Tehran, Iran. Since 2022, she started to pursue her story in dance as MFA student at UIUC, to begin a research-based study on Iranian dance and choreography