Most memorable spiritual experience. The music was mesmerizing and the entire "Whirling Dervishes" performance, with explanation projected in English on the walls, gave not only the understanding but also helped immerse in this spiritual experience.
The dervishes religious ceremony was beautiful and respectful with good information. We were treated to a ceremony based on Rumi and the Sufi religion. The five dancers were beautiful to watch as they entered the blissful whirling state to express their religious experience.
Both my husband and I thought this was a hypnotic and mesmerising performance, which we were very glad we went to. As others have noted it is a religious ceremony and so feels correctly symbolic and reverential do not go expecting entertainment as such I would agree it would help to arrive in time to read the panels before the show starts.
I went with muted expectations after having read some reviews and knowing fully well that it is a religious ritual rather than an entertainment show. In fact, at the start of the show, the audience were instructed to not applaud and everyone respected that throughout the show and after. I felt that we were just observers without any insights into what we were observing other than the fact that it was a religious ceremony. I feel that some explanation at the start of the show would have been much better to understand why the dervishes whirl or how that helps them connect to the almighty. Without any explanation, the show gets boring pretty quickly and 1 hour is definitely a long time to look at the same thing. I did it once as an experience but would not do it again. I also think that in its current format, it can be skipped. Any youtube video would show you all you need to see, that too in a shorter time with no obligation to sit through the whole 1 hour.
Amazing, must visit. The ambiance, the performance is very different. Approach to the place is bit of an issue. But overall expertise is above 5 stars.