KUSA – Chasing your dreams is a common theme for the screen. Rudy wanted to play football for the University of Notre Dame, Rocky sought his chance to fight as a professional boxer, and Afshin ...

As Desert Dance Theatre leaps into its 30th anniversary next year, longtime artistic director Lisa Chow remembers when her troupe was the only modern dance company in the Valley. My, how things have ...

Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...

As I say in my video review above, Richard Raymond’s directorial debut Desert Dancer is an inspiring true story set in the extremely dangerous period around the 2009 Iran presidential election, when a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — While Freida Pinto doesn’t see herself as a role model, the 30-year-old actress understands there’s a huge responsibility that goes with being in the public eye. That’s why she regards ...

With Iran in the news, the timing of “Desert Dancer” couldn’t be better. The real-life story of a young man who started an underground dance troupe, despite dancing’s being forbidden in the Islamic ...

With Iran in the news, the timing of Desert Dancer couldn’t be better. The film focuses on the real-life story of a young man who started an underground dance troupe despite a ban on dancing in the ...

The excitement circulating throughout the McCallum Theatre on the opening night of the 22nd annual Palm Desert Choreography Festival weekend was at an all-time high as 11 emerging and established ...

DEATH VALLEY JUNCTION, Calif. — Artists aren’t the only ones who found inspiration in desert dancer Marta Becket. California Highway Patrolman Robert Daharsh said a chance encounter at Becket’s ...

Freida Pinto has said that she found the intensive dance training for Desert Dancer daunting. Based on the true story of Iranian dancer Afshin Ghaffarian, who risked his life for his dream to become a ...