Love Parade
63 images Created 8 Mar 2021
Full video here, © Matthieu Paley : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haK9j0RL9tU
“We are the Anti-Taliban! We stand for love, tolerance and the great infinity”.
South Pakistan is the birth place of Sufism. Every year, an estimated one million pilgrims gather in the small desert town of Sehwan Sharif in Pakistan’s Sindh province to celebrate the world’s biggest Sufi Festival. Intoxicated by dance, love and devotion its followers commemorate the death anniversary of the Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalander.
Revered by Muslims and Hindus alike, the “Red Falcon Wanderer” is the patron saint of the outcasts of society. For three days and nights, musicians & poets, transvestites & prostitutes, beggars & holy men all unite in an infectious chaos of trance dance and prayers, defying Islamic hardliners.
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
Rumi, 13th century.
“We are the Anti-Taliban! We stand for love, tolerance and the great infinity”.
South Pakistan is the birth place of Sufism. Every year, an estimated one million pilgrims gather in the small desert town of Sehwan Sharif in Pakistan’s Sindh province to celebrate the world’s biggest Sufi Festival. Intoxicated by dance, love and devotion its followers commemorate the death anniversary of the Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalander.
Revered by Muslims and Hindus alike, the “Red Falcon Wanderer” is the patron saint of the outcasts of society. For three days and nights, musicians & poets, transvestites & prostitutes, beggars & holy men all unite in an infectious chaos of trance dance and prayers, defying Islamic hardliners.
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”
Rumi, 13th century.
