Dubai Desert Safari, UAE - Tanoura dance is one of the highlights of Desert Safari. Tanoura is a form of folkloric dance which is very common in Egypt. Tanoura means skirt in English and it is usually performed by Sufi men for the Sufi music, who spin continuously like the dervish dancers in the Levant and Turkey.
The Tanoura beat is religious in nature and the performers aim is to reach spiritual inner purity and to enter a trance-like state during the performance, being at one with God. The long swirling colorful skirts that the performers wear make spectacular patterns as they twirl around in circles..