In 2007, Farima Berenji established a worldwide collaboration with other traditional dancers and musicians in the Simorgh Dance Collective, a world community of expert and emerging artists devoted to cross-cultural dialogue and artistic collaboration in traditional, classical, and sacred dance styles of Persia and the Silk Road.

The Simorgh Dance Collective currently has member companies and artist affiliations in Alaska, Utah, Canada, Turkey, England, Iran, Kurdistan, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Simorgh Dance Collective is honored to be the first Persian dance company directed by an Iranian woman to perform during a U.S. presidential reception for Obama and Biden.

Simorgh Dance Collective is a fiscally sponsored project of the Allied Arts Foundation.

If you'd prefer to donate by check, please make check payable to "Allied Arts Foundation" and indicate "Simorgh Dance Collective" in the memo line. Checks can be mailed to:

Allied Arts Foundation
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