Whirling dervishes are members of a Sufi Muslim religious order who perform a spiritual dance and meditation practice known as the sema: The practice began in the 13th century with the Persian poet and mystic Jalaluddin Rumi, who believed that dance and music were paths to enlightenment.
In the heart of a swirling cosmic vortex, a luminous, ethereal man with a slender, androgynous physique, draped in diaphanous, starlight-infused robes that flow like gossamer mist, dances with weightless elegance, his body composed of innumerable glowing, iridescent particles and gossamer threads that ...