About the work
Shiraz is a choreography for seven dancers, weaving together a fabric of movements and gestures. Their insistent energy, the moments of convergence and their passage through a sphere of expressions and coordinates are what takes center stage in this performance. A pulsating dance imbued with a sense of enchantment and longing.
The starting point for this piece is the Shiraz Arts Festival. A festival for live arts that took place between 1967 and 1977 in south of Iran and radically rethought the relationship to the audience and modalities of framing art works. Armin Hokmi, together with the team, places it into our present day in the form of a revival, by giving it a new appearance through a dance performance.
Shiraz is both an homage and a fictional setting. It seeks to reimagine the ambitions of the festival and its love for the live arts, their autonomy as art forms and their common roots across geographical borders.
About the Choreographer
Armin Hokmi is working with dance and choreography. He began in 2009 as an actor with independent theater in Iran and later continued to work and study abroad toward experiences with different performative practices and mediums. He holds a B.A. in acting from Norwegian Theatre Academy (2015-2018) and has received his M.A. in Solo/ Dance/Authorship at HZT Berlin (2019-2021).
Armin’s dance and movement language is an interplay between a sense of familiarity with known forms, and dance practices that elude recognition. Cultivating a horizon where different possibilities of referentiality converge in contrast and alteration. Particularly and in concern for dances that have been neglected and deemed unworthy of historical significance.
In Shiraz, together with the team they start with a particular gesture that travels into new trajectories throughout the piece. Playing with the rhythms of music in a conversation that transforms their relationship to becoming one entity, indivisible and blending with one another. Enchanting and alive.
Artistic team
Concept and Choreography
Dance and Performance
Armin Hokmi
Daniel Sarr, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso, Aleksandra Petrusevska, Efthimios Moschopoulos, Johanna Ryynänen, Emmi Venna, Charlott Madeleine Utzig
Music EHSXN, Reza R
Lighting design Vito Walter
Scenography & light concept
Felipe Osorio Guzmán
In conversation with: Emmi Venna
Costumes Moriah Askenaizer
Consultation and archival study of the Shiraz Arts Festival (1966-1977) Vali Mahlouji
Sound technician Pablo Thiermann
Co-production: Festival Montpellier Danse 2024, Rosendal Teater (Trondheim), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), Black Box teater (Oslo), Tanzfabrik (Berlin) Supported by: Arts Council Norway, Nordic Culture Fund, FFUK, Nordic Culture Point, The Finnish Cultural Foundation and Goethe-Institut Dänemark.
Supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ
International Guest Performance Fund for Dance, which is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Residency support: Montpellier Danse, Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Lake Studios (Berlin), Uferstudios (Berlin), DAVVI Center for Performing Arts Hammerfest Research period supported by: Dis-Tanzen
Thank you to: Rasmus Jensen, Diletta Sperman, Ellen Söderhult, Theatre Haus Berlin
Practical info
Date, time & duration
20.–21.9.2024
20:00 / 1 hour
Dansehallerne Address
Dansehallerne, Franciska Clausens Plads 27, 1799
Copenhagen V
About Dansehallerne
Dansehallerne is a national center for dance and choreography. Our focus lies in presenting and co-producing Danish and international productions for all ages. We are a gathering point for passionate dance audiences and professionals. From our center, we communicate professional knowledge of the art of dance, and we drive discussions about all aspects of the art of dance, at an intermediate level and in-depth.
Being a national center, as well as a gathering point for the local and international communities, we continuously work to ensure the best possible settings for artistic production and for the audience’s encounter with the art of dance. Every year, people from all around the country can experience the best that dance has to offer. And for several hundred artists, Dansehallerne is the year-round base and interface for professional activities within the field of dance.
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Autumn Program 2024
20.–21.9. Armin Hokmi Shiraz 26.–28.9. Rósa Ómarsdóttir MOLTA 9.–13.10. Karis Zidore Slit Show
24.–27.10. Lara Ostan Vejrup DRIVER – Before lunch
28.10–1.11.
Birgitte Skands, Taneli Törmä Still / Dancing / Body
8.–9.11. Lovísa Ósk Gunnarsdóttir When the Bleeding Stops
16.–17.11 & Institute of Interconnected Realities 26.–28.11 Forest Stages – Revisited
19.–23.11. Emilie Gregersen On My Tongue 29.11–4.12. Ruth Rebekka Hansen RIPE BODY
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