Emruz Festival in collaboration with Rattlestick Playwrights Theater Present
Tehran -based Choreographer Hiva Sedaghat along with her collaborating artists Mitra Ziaeekia and Amirhossein Taqavee will join us for a session of conversation and video-showing.
Language: Farsi/English Duration: 45 Minutes Time: 2:00 PM EST | 7:00 PM GMT | 10:30 PM Tehran
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Hiva Sedaghat Is a choreographer, dancer, and performer based in Tehran. Hiva has been part of various creations both as performer and choreographer inside and outside of Iran. She was studying architecture when she became familiar with contemporary dance through an underground workshop in Tehran, and because of her passion in this field, she participated in various workshops, masterclasses, intensive programs, and laboratories in Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Europe and most recently in New York. She continues her journey in the field of contemporary dance and performance art with “MaHa Dance Projects,” also, she choreographed and performed her first solo dance piece in the Body Movement Festival of MaHa, a dance festival in Tehran. She also choreographed and performed two duet dance pieces that she presented in numerous festivals. She has participated in many international artist residencies and has a strong passion for collaboration and the exchange of ideas with different cultures and background artists around the world. Now she is continuing her journey as a freelance experimental artist with researching, experiencing, improvising, traveling, and creating new ideas through her body, sound, and writing.
Mitra Ziaeekia is a dancer, choreographer, director, and actor based in Tehran. She has studied theater and drama. Mitra has collaborated and performed with many theater groups. Working in the field of the physical theater changed the course of her career and therefore she was drawn to contemporary dance. Because of her passion for the human body and movement, she started to partake in numerous dance workshops, courses, and laboratories both in Iran and abroad. She is constantly striving to develop her physical and mental skills and get to know the approaches of other dancers, choreographers, and teachers by exchanging ideas and interacting with them. Mitra has choreographed and performed two dance solos, gave dance performances in various events and projects with Iranian and international groups, and performed in one dance collaboration. She has also choreographed and directed two duets and participated in numerous festivals. She is the executive manager of Maha Dance Projects. Having organized one festival and two events in Tehran, the group is holding workshops and courses on a regular basis, also choreographing, giving performances, and collaborating with other groups. At present, Mitra is doing research, studying, and writing in order to find her personal artistic expression and realize her own ideas using sounds, dialogs, music, and images.
Amirhossein Taqavee was born in Tehran in 1989. During his undergraduate in architecture at Shahid Beheshti University, he realized his incompatibility with any definition and medium, and in the middle of his master's in theater at the University of Sooreh, with the confidence in the validity of this sense, he also left the theater community. By writing two story collections and a few short films, he sets out on a quest to express the unknown imagination, he always struggled with by confronting with the phenomena, requiring a higher speed and less manipulation to come out and become. A way to escape the limitations that are lost in the form of title, medium, technique, and definition that disrupts this discovery process. A way to take care of himself from the picture of himself. Painting for him is where the confrontation between him and his work is happening every moment. He constantly exposes himself to new forms emerging from the past by constantly destroying the shapes that are emerging.