Styles
- Baba karam: Is a male Persian dance which is nowadays also performed by women, the dance derived from a Sufi story whereby a servant at the court of the king falls in love with one of the harem girls and sings this song out of grief of not being able to be with her.
- Bandari: Bandari refers to the style of dancing indigenous to southern areas of Iran. Due to increased interaction with other cultures and peoples from areas such as the Arabian peninsula, the Eastern coast of Africa, and the coasts of Afghanistan and India through sea-based trade.
- Bojnurdi dance
- Classical Persian court dance
- Haj Naranji dance
- Kereshmeh
- Bandari Dance
- Kharman dance
- Khorasani dance
- Latar dance
- Lezgi dance
- Luri
- Matmati
- Mazandarani
- Motrebi dance
- Qasemabadi A dance of the Gilak people.
- Raqs-e Choob A dance of the Kord people of Khorasan.
- Raqs-e Parcheh
- Ru-Howzi
- Shamshir dance
- Shateri dance
- Tehrani dance (Tehrooni)
- Vahishta
- Zaboli dance
- Zargari dance
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