Titel: Searching for Leyla the Kurdish Princess of Dance
Edited by: Leyla Safiye
Page: 322
Published: 2012
Content: “In the depths of darkness stands a young woman, her slender body sparkling in soft silk of pearly hue. Her hair is dark, the color of the night sky. Fear floats down her spine. Her long legs are trembling”. In her Kurdish dance Dilan, Leyla carries to the stage the fire in the hearts of young men and women dancing at the Newroz festivities whose origin go back to the ancient worship of the sacred fire. She feels the blood of her forebears coursing through her veins.
