{"id":11100,"date":"2025-11-18T00:13:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/stuecke\/shiraz\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T15:07:44","slug":"shiraz","status":"publish","type":"nb_production","link":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/stuecke\/shiraz\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiraz"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is there a way to revive a festival through a dance performance? Armin Hokmi and the team answer this question with intelligence and flair in \u2018Shiraz\u2019. It is almost like watching a sunrise or sunset: over and over again, this mysterious, captivating work reveals further nuances for the viewer to appreciate.<\/p>\n

Seven performers weave a pattern of movements, coiling and uncoiling to the pulsating beat of a captivating music, tracing fluid trajectories that bring them together in ephemeral constellations. With an unwavering affinity for the impulses arising between the dancers, “Shiraz” brings to the forefront the collective work of remembering and dancing together. A practice of love. A pulsating dance imbued with a sense of enchantment and longing.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

\u00abShiraz\u00bb 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.<\/p>\n

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Concept and Choreography:<\/strong> Armin Hokmi
\nDance and Performance:<\/strong> Daniel Sarr, Luisa Fernanda Alfonso , Aleksandra Petrushevska, Efthimios Moschopoulos, Johanna Ryyn\u00e4nen, Emmi Venna, Charlott Madeleine Utzig, in alternation with Xenia Koghilaki
\nMusic:<\/strong> EHSXN, Reza R
\nLighting design:<\/strong> Vito Walter
\nScenography and light concept:<\/strong> Felipe Osorio Guzm\u00e1n
\nCreated in conversation with:<\/strong> Emmi Venna
\nCostumes:<\/strong> Moriah Askenaizer
\nReworking of the costumes:<\/strong> Katharina Fritz
\nConsultation and archival study of the Shiraz Arts Festival (1966-1977):<\/strong> Vali Mahlouji<\/p>\n

Co-production:<\/strong> Festival Montpellier Danse 2024, Rosendal Teater (Trondheim), Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), Black Box teater (Oslo), Tanzfabrik (Berlin)<\/p>\n

Supported by:<\/strong> Arts Council Norway, Nordic Culture Fund, FFUK, Nordic Culture Point<\/p>\n

Residency support:<\/strong> Montpellier Danse, Tanzfabrik (Berlin), Lake Studios (Berlin), Uferstudios (Berlin), DAVVI Center for Performing Arts Hammerfest<\/p>\n

Research period supported by:<\/strong> Dis-Tanzen<\/p>\n

Thank you to:<\/strong> Anne-C\u00e9cile Sibu\u00e9, Rasmus Jensen, Diletta Sperman, Ellen S\u00f6derhult, Theatre Haus Berlin<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Armin Hokmi<\/strong> is working with dance and choreography. He began in 2009 as a performer with independent theater in Iran and later continued to work and study abroad toward experiences with multiple 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).<\/p>\n

Armin’s dance and movement language is an interplay between a sense of familiarity with known forms, and 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. His choreographic practice embarks throughout time and space, overflowing attention and persuading change through the constant unfolding of the dance into new trajectories. His recent works include Passages (2019), Public Dance, Permutable Stage (2021), International Dance (2022) and Shiraz (2024).<\/p>\n

As a dancer and performer he has worked with artists such as Mette Ingvartsen, Kasper Ravnh\u00f8j, Hooman Sharifi and Phillip Zarrilli among others. Armin is an associate artist at Montpellier Danse for 2024-2026.
\nBetween 2026-2030 he will be focused on three creations: Repertoire (Bazm), Troupe and Ensemble. The projects deal with historicity and modalities of collectivity in dance.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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“\u2026 a hypnotic atmosphere that points to a fragile, yet determined orientation towards the possibilities of the living arts. This is a self-critical work of love. “<\/strong><\/em>
\n– Inky Lee , Tanzschreiber<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had said that he had full confidence in dance, and Armin Hokmi absolutely proves this through this experience that he has offered us, all together again. Yet another path to Beauty.\u201c<\/strong><\/em> Offshore Revue<\/p>\n

\u201cArmin Hokmi. The revelation of Montpellier Dans, it’s him\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Noisette Philippe<\/p>\n

“In this creation, the dance is de-gendered, blending male and female dancers in perfect harmony.”<\/strong><\/em>Cult.news<\/p>\n

“The creation is a choreographic gem, a real work of art.”<\/strong> <\/em>Dansercanalhistorique.fr<\/p>\n

“Armin Hokmi reveals the finesse of his choreographic writing on the occasion of his piece Shiraz.\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Marie Reverdy<\/p>\n

\u201cA choreographic weave of great poetic finesse.\u201d<\/strong> <\/em>
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