Raqib Brian Burke - Director Raqib Brian Burke has twenty-eight years of study and experience under the Mevlevi Sheikhs Reshad Field, Suleyman Dede and Jelaluddin Loras, and Rifa'i Sheikh Sherif Baba Catalkaya. He performed in the first ever Sema Ceremony by North American dervishes in Konya, Turkey, at the tomb of Mevlana Celaluddin Rumi founder of whirling and has since performed in Canada and the United States at numerous spiritual gatherings, weddings, memorial services, arts festivals and music events. Short film on Raqib and Mira Burke on ZeD TV Broadband video of Raqib and Mira Burke turning at the Roundhouse Centre in 2002	home School of Whirling Performing Arts About Whirling About Raqib Gallery Contact Links

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