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This year, tanzpol stages a festival of
contemporary dance and performance by focusing
on positions of Afghan and Iranian artists, who live in
different contexts in Europe. tanzpol places a
curatorial emphasis on the conditions and situations
of being in exile and explores the question: "How do
experiences of exile continue within an international
artistic field?"
Through dancing, laughing, singing, feeling,
speaking, celebrating, discussing and mourning
together in interactive formats, gatherings,
interdisciplinary concert-dance performances, three
workshops and three panel discussions, tanzpol
invites you to enter into dialog, listen and get to
know each other.
With Tara Fatehi, Pouya Ehsaei, Ali Moini, Roza
Moshtaghi, Cédric Cherdel, Raoni Mouzha Saleh,
Afrang Malekian, Ulduz Ahmandzadeh, Elnaz
Sheshgelani, Sepideh Khodarahmi a.o.
Curated by Ashkan Afsharian, Johanna
Kasperowitsch
Production Anika Bendel, Béla Bisom
Moderation Ozi Ozar, Elahe Hatami
Technical director Joshua Lee McKain
Design Afshin Chizari
Press Nora Gores.
Founded by Senate Department for Culture and
Social Cohesion and with funds from The Capital
Cultural Fund (Hauptstadtkulturfond) and Goethe-
Institut im Exil. With kind support of the Institut
français and the French Ministry of Culture,
International Theater Institute Germany (ITI),
Sophiensaele and Uferstudios Berlin.
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Video creadit: Afshin Chizari
Music: From the lips to the moon
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Ashkan Afsharian
(Curator)
Ashkan is a choreographer, curator and dancer/performer. His first contact with the performing arts was through acting/speech theater and drama studies at the University of Arak/Iran. In 2019 he completed the MA Choreography at the Inter-University Center (HZT) Berlin. In 2019 he received a research grant from the Berlin Senate. In 2020 he co-founded the exchange platform tanzpol. In 2021, he received funding from the Berlin Senate for one- and two-year festivals and series. Furthermore, in 2022 he received a research grant from the Fonds Darstellende Künste as part of #TAKE HEART.
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Johanna Kasperowitsch
(Dramaturgy tanzpol Festival)
Johanna is a dancer, dance scholar and co-founder of the tanzpol platform. She has been working there as a dramaturge and curator since 2020. She studied contemporary dance at the Center for Contemporary Dance (ZZT) at the Cologne University of Music and Dance and a Master's degree in Dance Studies at the Free University of Berlin. As part of her contemporary dance practice, she has been working as a freelancer since 2010 and has worked with numerous choreographers internationally. In 2022 she received the Research Award of the Society for Dance Research.
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ELAHE HATAMI
Elaheh Hatami holds a doctorate in dance studies and works as researcher, theorist and author. She is based in Berlin. She is the author of the book Glocal Bodies: Dancers in Exile and Politics of Place: A Critical Study of Contemporary Iranian Dance (Transcript, 2022). Currently, she works on establishing an Iranian dance archive in exile and is writing a monograph on the development of this archive project.
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OZI OZAR
Ozi Ozar is a Tehran-born queer artist based in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. Ozi studied theater and film directing in Tehran and dramaturgy in Frankfurt. Ozi’s artistic approach revolves around comedy, interactive theater and the translation of social media functions into theater and vice versa, focusing on the discourse of identity politics, accessibility of education and queerness. As a multidisciplinary freelancer, Ozi has experience as a director, dramaturg, translator, graphic and web designer, performer and social media entertainer. Since the beginning of the Woman* Life Freedom Movement in Iran, Ozi has dedicated his social media to the revolution in Iran and has been part of the Woman* Life Freedom Collective in Berlin and co-curates the online gallery Voices of Iran in collaboration with international production houses. Ozi is part of the program team of Ballhaus Ost Berlin.
Founded by Senate Department for
Culture and Social Cohesion and with
funds from The Capital Cultural Fund
(Hauptstadtkulturfond) and Goethe-
Institut im Exil. With kind support of the
Institut français and the French Ministry
of Culture, International Theater
Institute Germany (ITI), Sophiensaele
and Uferstudios Berlin.
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ELNAZ SHESHGELANI
Elnaz Sheshgelani is a dancer, dance researcher, storyteller, director, puppeteer and educator. She holds a PhD in Performing Arts in which she creatively reconstructed and documented the gestural aspects of Persian dramatic storytelling. She has held workshops on her work and has applied it to performance in theatre productions around the world. Elnaz is a member of UNESCO’s International Dance Council (CID) and works as a dance educator internationally. She teaches Creativity and the Arts in Education at Victoria University in Melbourne and was a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Postcolonial Studies (2022-2023).
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ULDUZ AHMADZADEH
Ulduz Ahmadzadeh is a choreographer, dancer, researcher, educator, and artistic co-director of the Vienna-based contemporary dance company ATASH عطش. Her artistic work breaks with Western aesthetics, developing a significant South and West Asian-influenced contemporary dance language and addresses socio-political issues and cultural hierarchies. She works at the intersection of dance, performance, video, installation, documentation and activism. Her most recent works tour internationally have been produced in collaboration with Tanzquartier Wien and Brut.
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AFRANG NORDLÖF
Afrang Nordlöf Malekian is an artist with a master’s in Arts from the Dutch Art Institute in Arnhem. In his practice, he works with history’s unnoticed creators and puts history into use as a form of documentation and aspiration that calls for improbable and impossible futurities. It examines how narratives and hierarchies disappear, return, and transform in the most unexpected ways. Afrang Nordlöf Malekian is represented in institutions such as Moderna Museet, the Public Art Agency Sweden, and the Arab Image Foundation Library. He has exhibited at venues such as the 10th Berlin Biennale, Moderna Museet, West Den Haag and Tensta konsthall.
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SEPIDEH KHODARAHMI
Sepideh Khodarahmi’s roots are acting, dance, contemporary circus, drag, mathematics, street-dance, mime, iranian drag, queer. Busy balancing between making and performing. Sometimes teaching. Dealing with cake-sitting, drag, sticky mess, power, intimacy, high energy, acceleration, destruction Construction, existential humor, erotic, ass shaking, movement. In their work, sensuality is a recurring element and method. Name-Dropping: Marina Abramovic, Unga Klara, Hooman Sharifi, JUCK and Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre to brag about a few workplaces. Graduated from Academy of Music and Arts in Gothenburg, Department of Mathematics at Stockholm University, Broadway Dance Center, Mime School at Amsterdam Academy of Theatre and Dance.
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Founded by Senate Department for
Culture and Social Cohesion and with
funds from The Capital Cultural Fund
(Hauptstadtkulturfond) and Goethe-
Institut im Exil. With kind support of the
Institut français and the French Ministry
of Culture, International Theater
Institute Germany (ITI), Sophiensaele
and Uferstudios Berlin.
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MAN ANAM KE ROSTAM BOVAD PAHLAVAN
26th of May, 8 p.m., Festaaal Sophiensaele, plus Artist-Talk
27th of May, 8 p.m., Festsaal Sophiensaele
In this work, Ali Moini and his life-size puppet interact through a block and tackle. Through karabiners and pulleys connected by a complex system of ropes, the performer and the metal puppet form an interdependent triad. Thus, each dance movement finds its echo in a dismantled and chaotic version in the movements of the metal, initially fleshless puppet. Here the mechanism does not just function as a translator but also as the manipulator of the life between the performer and his double. Even the meaning of the respective roles fade. The efficiency of the development of the actors on stage can vary to the extent that their identities and classifications – between being object and subject, actor and observer, follower and leader and between authenticity and unreliability – get lost.
Concept & interpretation: Ali Moini
Composers: 9T ANTIOPE / Sarah Bigdelishamloo & Nima Aghiani
Scenography: Julien Peissel + Ali Moini
Machinery: Julien Peissel
Lights: Stéfane Perraud
Stage management: Samson Milcent & Florian de Sépibus
Dramaturgy consultant: Thibaud Croisy
Costume: Valentine Solé
Sound management: ongoing
Production: Selon l’Heure
Executive production: Latitudes Prod. – Lille
With the support of Fondation d’entreprise Hermès in the New Settings Program and DRAC Ile-De-France with the Aide au Projet. Co-production: Festival Montpellier Danse, La Passerelle Scène Nationale de St Brieuc, La Filature Scène Nationale de Mulhouse.
Accueil: Espace Pasolini, Centre National de la Danse (within the framework of augmented residences).
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ALI MOINI
Iranian-born choreographer and performer, Ali Moini studied dramatic arts and musical composition in Iran before graduating in choreographic creation from Forum Dança in Lisbon. Based in France, he created the soli My Paradoxical Knives, Talking in/to Myself, and Man Anam Ke Rostam Bovad pahlavan. Collaboratively, he co-created Lives with Fred Rodrigues and the group piece Gaugemancy. He choreographed James Carles’ solo Psaume #3 in 2019. His latest piece, ± (plusminus), premiered in 2021 at the NEXT International Festival. Since 2020, his company, Selon l’Heure, collaborates with Latitudes Prod., Latitudes Contemporaines’ production office in Paris.
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SAJAD AHMADI
Sajad Ahmad grew up in Afghanistan. Sportsman since his early youth, he practices acrobatic gymnastics. Wishing to gain independence, be safe, and rebuild a new life, he left Afghanistan for Sweden where he lived from 2015 to 2019. Following the refusal of his asylum request, he finally was obliged to leave this country. In 2019, he arrived to France without knowing the language and without many contacts. It was an intense and disturbing period that he calls his “third birth”. In this period he adopted the nickname “Daniel”. Attracted by cinema and acting, he participated in various creative projects and took theater classes.
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Founded by Senate Department for
Culture and Social Cohesion and with
funds from The Capital Cultural Fund
(Hauptstadtkulturfond) and Goethe-
Institut im Exil. With kind support of the
Institut français and the French Ministry
of Culture, International Theater
Institute Germany (ITI), Sophiensaele
and Uferstudios Berlin.
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:Cédric Cherdel
After studying cinema at University, Cédric Cherdel joined a professional master-program in arts
in Tours, France. In this context, Cédric developed his choreographic practices in collaboration with several choreographers such as Bernardo Montet, Thomas Ferrand, Susan Buirge, Latifa Laâbissi and others. In 2010 he joined the professional program From Interpreter to Author created by Maguy Marin, followed by a master degree in Essay, Performance and Choreography under the artistic direction of Emmanuelle Hyunh. Crossing path with choreographer and dancer Min Tanaka, Cédric decided to train Reiki, Japanese energy treatment, and traditional thai massage in several schools in Thailand.
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Founded by Senate Department for
Culture and Social Cohesion and with
funds from The Capital Cultural Fund
(Hauptstadtkulturfond) and Goethe-
Institut im Exil. With kind support of the
Institut français and the French Ministry
of Culture, International Theater
Institute Germany (ITI), Sophiensaele
and Uferstudios Berlin.
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From the lips to the moon
24th / 25th of May, 8 p.m., Kantine, Sophiensaele
A flock of birds flying south. A flicker of red behind closed eyes. A pillar of books collapsing. One hundred mouths opening in unison. A wounded cheetah climbing up a tree. A walking stick tapping, pause, tapping. A twisting waist, a stiff knee, elbows pressing into ribs, focus. Two hands wrapping bandage around an arm. A lump of dough smashed into the kitchen counter. Two pairs of feet going on tip toe and down, tip toe and down. It’s about movement, necessity, banality.
Created by electronic musician and composer Pouya Ehsaei and voicer, mover, writer Tara Fatehi, From the Lips to the Moon is an unusual music and poetry show. It’s an immersive space playing with the synergies of words, melodies, languages and beats to tell non-stories in goosebumps, twists and half-familiar languages. Pouya and Tara invite local guest artists from the Berlin scene to collaborate with them. Building textual, sonic and visual structures that activate spontaneity, listening and improvisation, each night, they create a unique live performance.
Tags: Phonetic Translations, Sensory Triggers, Content Notes, Alternative Sitting Options, Venues, Early Boarding.
Credits
Concept, light, sound: Tara Fatehi, Pouya Ehsaei
With dancers, poets and musicians from the Berlin scene (details tba)
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Founded by Senate Department for
Culture and Social Cohesion and with
funds from The Capital Cultural Fund
(Hauptstadtkulturfond) and Goethe-
Institut im Exil. With kind support of the
Institut français and the French Ministry
of Culture, International Theater
Institute Germany (ITI), Sophiensaele
and Uferstudios Berlin.
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Pouya Ehsaei
Pouya is an electronic musician, producer, radio host and curator. Pouya's music involves experimenting with different compositional and sound synthesis techniques to create a sonic passage through hypnotic soundscapes, industrial beats, epic soundscapes, fractal polymeric rhythms, and pulsating hard-hitting sub frequencies. Pouya has released the two solo albums There (2014) and RocRast (2020) as well as two albums with his band Ariwo. He performed at the Royal Albert Hall, Barbican Centre, Southbank Centre and Bozar as well as festivals including Montreux Jazz Festival, Womex, Womad, Fusion, Bahidora, Manana, Boomtown, Shambala and Linecheck. www.pouyaehaei.com
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Founded by Senate Department for
Culture and Social Cohesion and with
funds from The Capital Cultural Fund
(Hauptstadtkulturfond) and Goethe-
Institut im Exil. With kind support of the
Institut français and the French Ministry
of Culture, International Theater
Institute Germany (ITI), Sophiensaele
and Uferstudios Berlin.
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Tara Fatehi
Tara works across performance, voice, movement and writing engaging with ambiguity,
mistranslation, unfinishedness, messy narratives and gestures found and lost in everyday
life. Tara has performed at the V&A Museum, Royal Academy of Arts, Nottdance, Chapter and
Edinburgh Horizon among others. Tara’s Mishandled Archive is 365 days of dispersing a family
archive in public space through dance and photographs, performed internationally and
published as a book (LADA, 2020). Always Already is an 8-hour movement and voice duet with
Karen Christopher. As a performer Tara has recently worked with Hooman Sharifi and Teatro O
Bando.
www.tarafatehi.com
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Founded by Senate Department for
Culture and Social Cohesion and with
funds from The Capital Cultural Fund
(Hauptstadtkulturfond) and Goethe-
Institut im Exil. With kind support of the
Institut français and the French Ministry
of Culture, International Theater
Institute Germany (ITI), Sophiensaele
and Uferstudios Berlin.
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BOUNCING NARRATIVES
27th of May, 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Uferstudios, Yard,
28th of May, 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., Uferstudios, Yard, plus Artist-Talk at 7 p.m.
Bouncing Narratives is a jumbled mess—a playful wash of images, sounds and movements that elicits the fine line of pure joy and trauma narratives. It centers around a trauma that cannot be expressed in words, that bounces back again and again. The spectators lie on soft mats and follow the performers on a trampoline above them. The use of minimal and repetitive vocabulary, like bouncing and sliding and nuances of rhythm and speed becomes the main component of a performative act that animates the installation and drives towards a trance-like intensity. In this interdisciplinary collaborative project Roza Moshtaghi proposes a heterotopian space for the alienated body, the vulnerable self of a “monster identity” and for the gap between the self and the “other”.
Notes on accessibility:
This event will be offered as a Relaxed Performance on 28th of May at both times. The artist talk will be held in English. A translation into German will be provided via headphones. For information on content notes, sensory triggers, childcare and further information on accessibility, click here:
Tags: Relaxed Performance, Phonetic Translations, Childcare, Sensory Triggers, Content Notes, Alternative Sitting Options, Venues, Early Boarding.
Bios: Roza Moshtaghi.
Credits
Choreography/concept: Roza Moshtaghi
Concept: Shahrzad Malekian
Sound/Poster: Lykourgos Porfyris
Performance: Oda Bjørholm, Marit Meløe
Assisting scenography: Carl Nilssen Love
Costume: Shiva Sherveh
Light: Martin Myrvold
Production: Julie Olsen, Sunniva Fliflet
Documentation: Josh Lake
Technical support: Pawel Karczmarczyk
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Roza Moshtaghi
Roza Moshtaghi is an Iranian artist who lives and works in Oslo. Her creations often are situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer, dancer and performer. Her works deal with the unexplained narratives of desire generated in adapting or reacting to systems and structures. The ordinary, or rather what we have forced inside the uniform of the ordinary, is Roza's playground. She looks for possibilities to hypothesize "the hidden" by digging into the ordinary as a silent landscape. Roza holds an MA in choreography from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She presents her work internationally and continues developing projects with other artists as a collaborator and performer.
Founded by Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and with funds from The Capital Cultural Fund (Hauptstadtkulturfond) and Goethe-Institut im Exil. With kind support of the Institut français and the French Ministry of Culture, International Theater Institute Germany (ITI), Sophiensaele and Uferstudios Berlin.
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Roza Moshtaghi
Roza Moshtaghi is an Iranian artist who lives and works in Oslo. Her creations often are situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer, dancer and performer. Her works deal with the unexplained narratives of desire generated in adapting or reacting to systems and structures. The ordinary, or rather what we have forced inside the uniform of the ordinary, is Roza's playground. She looks for possibilities to hypothesize "the hidden" by digging into the ordinary as a silent landscape. Roza holds an MA in choreography from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She presents her work internationally and continues developing projects with other artists as a collaborator and performer.
Founded by Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and with funds from The Capital Cultural Fund (Hauptstadtkulturfond) and Goethe-Institut im Exil. With kind support of the Institut français and the French Ministry of Culture, International Theater Institute Germany (ITI), Sophiensaele and Uferstudios Berlin.
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