The Aesthetic Variety of Sufi Dance in the Performances of the Director Qasim Muhammad Al-Bayatli

Abstract

Sufi dance possessed connotations and a symbolic aesthetic tool that may be related to the soul and soul of man. Sufi dance with aesthetic dimensions became part of the operational system of theatrical performance. From that aesthetic, the Iraqi director Qasim  Muhammad Al-Bayatli set out with his theatrical performances, taking from Sufi dance indicative signs to liberate the inner potentials to reach the self, and transform The ideas of the actor into feelings in a tangible way, from this the research problem becomes clear, with the extent of embodying the philosophy of Sufi dance in the performances of director Qassem Muhammad Al-Bayatli, and transforming the centers of potential energy in the human soul into theatrical images. to the search results and then the list of sources.