| Duration | 70 min |
| Part of | CaDance Festival |
A house party in the Tehran of 1991. This is the setting for a re-enactment that choreographer Sina Saberi has established. He invites us to re-create that evening together, and choreographically (re)discover ourselves and our/the past. Different roles come into play: the child, the decadent person, and the dancer draw the present to take you through different ways of being that together form the basis of our existence.
The host travels with the audience through moving images of a past. Only, it is up to us to choose: are we the guest who only wants to observe, or the guest who perhaps wants to participate in the dance?
During his residency at K3, Iranian choreographer Sina Saberi explored both traditional and contemporary forms of movement in an Iranian cultural context. Sina seeks a choreographic process of memory, studying moving images of a past that is neither personal nor present.
*گس or Narges is a Persian word that a woman's name, an allusion to the eye of the beloved, and the word for daffodil.
In the context of 80 years of freedom, Korzo presents Embodied Freedoms - a series of dance films that make the deeper layers of freedom tangible - during the month of May. Prior to Basis for Being, we will show the 4 dance films (10 minutes in total) followed by an Artist Talk.
Especially for this evening, programmer Nitchka Wefers Bettink will talk to choreographer Roshanak Morrowatian about the film she made. Like Sina Saberi, Roshanak was forced to flee Iran. In her film Khorsid | Sun, she embodies her answer to the question: What does freedom mean to you?
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When freedom burns, she burns red.
Inspired by the phoenix—the myth, the fire, the rise—
Khorshid is a dancefilm of rebirth and revolt.
A tribute to women who fight for their freedom
to move, , to learn, to sing, to soar.
To feel wind in their hair and fire in their bones.
From ashes, they rise—unbroken, unstoppable.
I dance in their flame.
I am the firebird.
I am Khorshid.
And I ignite.
Korzo Zaal