Mr. Baca will be helped in that effort by Battery Dance Company and its founder, Jonathan Hollander, whose team-building workshop "Dancing to Connect" has been presented in 24 countries since 2006, often with the help of the State Department or embassies.

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Abbas Abdi, a reformer who was once a radical, having led the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran in 1979, accuses his movement of dancing on the rooftop before its building was completed.

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Taking place at the historical building of the Saraya, the ceremony featured Kurdish folklore dancing and several cultural activities.

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