Described as the “most important ballet” by Haideh, The Caravan was choreographed by Mrs Cook who was inspired by a poem by Sadi, one of Iran’s famous and much loved poets. Mrs Cook "wrote a charming story of young love and enchantment that lies beyond the horizon”. At the very start of Haideh and Nejad careers as young dancers the characters in The Caravan were three girls, Haideh, Nesta and Wilma, and three boys, Nejad, Ali and Hossein - who called themselves the “three musketeers”!. With guidance from Mrs Cook, the dancers improvised the steps and movements which combined improvisation, modern ballet and folk dance until they reached their desired goal of creating a 40 minute long dance which embodied feelings of young love and enchantment. In keeping with the theme of the dance, the colours of the dancer’s costumes resembled the colours of the Iranian dessert at sunrise, rose, violet like the mountains and flowers of the oasis. The girl’s dresses were also based on folk and national Iranian dresses but made of two layers of light fabric, satin and “flimsy”, to appear more ethereal and otherworldly. The girls wore a long thin scarf/chador on their heads. These costumes were made by Ms Esmat Sedegh, a graduate of the academy of Fine Arts in Ankara. The Caravan was first danced in 1946 in a Persian garden in the compound of the American Embassy in Tehran and the stage was surrounded with flower beds and trees, which looked like an open air theater. Haideh described the event as an “enchanted evening and left the audience spellbound”.

The music for this dance was composed “by an officer, Nazari, and Mahdi Forough sang the verse at the end”. When in Athens, 1948, the conductor left the group so Nejad then spent time whistling the tune to some Greek musicians so they could write it down to be transcribed, arranged by an orchestra and rehearsed with dancers. It took some getting used to but the show still went on!

The Caravan continued to be the ballet company’s “ pièce de résistance“ even when planning the National Iranian Ballet Company’s first command performance for Malek Feisal II, mid 1950s Haideh said that her and Nejad thought the best item we could stage for the occasion, would be. The Caravan, as they had performed it so many times before and all the costumes were ready as Nilla left them with the costumes to use when needed. For this performance, The Caravan was danced by Hossien, Ali and new member Leon for the male parts and Haideh and two new girls, Rosa and Farihan for the female roles.