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Fringe: Light has teeth

Sanam Tahmasebi (IR)
Wed 9 Sep ’26 - Sat 12 Sep ’26
A dreamlike ritual interrupted by the real.
Wed 9 Sep ’26
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Sat 12 Sep ’26

Light has teeth begins with a body almost swallowed by hair. What looks like protection slowly becomes weight, costume, landscape, trap and instrument.  
 

In this first chapter of a larger performance, vocalist and composer Sanam Tahmasebi and dancer Roshanak Morrowatian move through a dream ritual where voice, hair, sound and live projected image keep shifting roles. Live singing, electronics, cello, made percussion, contact microphones and recorded voices of Iranian women poets form a score that moves between song, noise, breath and memory.  

The work does not tell one story. It follows a body trying to surface, a voice trying to stay present, and a freedom that arrives with gravity. Somewhere between dream and reality, tenderness and pressure, Light has teeth asks what begins to surface when hiding is no longer possible. 

  • Duration: 30 mins.
  • Language: English
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About Sanam Tahmasebi 

Sanam Tahmasebi is a Tehran born, Amsterdam based vocalist, multi instrumentalist, composer, performer and interdisciplinary maker. Her work moves through voice, sound, movement, text and performance, drawing from Persian musical memory, jazz, improvisation, electroacoustic sound and collaborative stage practices. Her work has been presented at festivals and venues including Oerol, Gaudeamus, International Theater Amsterdam, Into the Great Wide Open, Le Guess Who and Uitmarkt.  
 
For Light has teeth, she collaborates with Roshanak Morrowatian, an Iran born dancer, performer and choreographer based in the Netherlands. Her work moves between performance, choreography and embodied research, exploring identity, borders, belonging, the physicality of memory and the experience of a body in diaspora. She has previously performed at Frascati with her dance company Rover.

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