The award-winning Silk Road Dance Company (SRDC) presents traditional and contemporary women's dances from the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Caucasus.
Founded by Artistic Director Laurel Victoria Gray in 1995, the ensemble's performances offer a unique glimpse of the life, culture, and art of little known regions.
Bluestar Dance Troupe was founded a year ago by the leadership of Zeki Maviyildiz who has been sharing his vast experience and talents with his friends.
Despite being a new dance group, Bluestar Dance Troupe introduced Turkish Folk Dances to many audiences. They present a variety of Turkish folk dance pieces from traditional dances to modern choreographies keeping the spirit of the dance.
Marbling is performed using aqueous natural pigments mixed with ox-gall and a rectangular trough filled with a mucilaginous mixture, traditionally prepared using gum tragacanth.
Colors are sprinkled using brushes made of rose stalks and horsehair on the surface of the mucilaginous solution in the trough. The floating pattern is taken off to paper either as is or after being reshaped and retouched using pins, needles, combs.
The art of writing script in such a way is to express the beauty of what is being written in the formation of the letters themselves.
Elegant, decorative writing, developed to an art form itself, used to enhance the artistic appeal and visual beauty of handwritten papers and manuscripts.
Authentic Döner Kabob, Shish Kabobs, Kofta, Wraps, Pitas, Pies (meat and spinach), Dolma, Börek, Baklavas, Turkish coffee and Turkish tea are among the items in the festival menu.
