Sorour Darabi
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Sorour Darabi is a self-taught Iranian artist. Their pieces address transformation through time and cohabitation with the environment, as well as notions of language, gender identity, sexuality and vulnerability.
Biography
Sorour Darabi is a self-taught Iranian artist who has been living and working in France since 2013. Working actively in Iran, they were part of the underground organisation ICCD, whose festival Untimely (Teheran) hosted their work before their departure for France. Their pieces address transformation through time and cohabitation with the environment, as well as notions of language, gender identity, sexuality and vulnerability.
In 2013, they enrolled in the Master Exerce at ICI-CCN in Montpellier, from which they graduated in 2015. In 2016, they created Farci.e, a solo dealing with notions of language, gender identity and sexuality. Their next piece, Savušun (2018), is an ode to affection, vulnerability and affected beings, drawing inspiration from Muharram mourning ceremonies and addresses the issue of emotions: grief, fear and suffering. In 2020-2021, upon invitation from the Brussels Kunstenfestivaldesarts, they created Mowgli, inspired by the jungle as an infinite territory at the crossroads of contemporary myths.
Since their first work Farci.e, Sorour Darabi has been exploring the notion of transgression, with a particular focus on the potential of reappropriation. Reappropriation can bring to light what is masked by binary thinking: the hybrid myths hidden between left and right, man and woman, human and animal, good and bad, physical and spiritual, natural and industrial...
In Natural Drama, they question the concept of ‘nature’ through the lens of contemporary environmental issues and from a historical and socio-political perspective, with all this implies for the body. Natural Drama is a kind of futuristic mythology rooted in dance traditions both seen and hidden, preserved and lost.
co-production Centre national de la danse – CN D Pantin Festival d’Automne à Paris ICI-CCN Montpellier – Occitanie / Pyrénées Méditerranée dans le cadre du projet Europe Creative Life Long Burning financé par l’Union européenne ; Réseau L’Echangeur – CDCN Hauts-de- France WEB : La maison de la danse CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, WP Zimmer, Beursschouwburg, Black Box Theater, Tanzquartier Wien, Frascati Producties PICA (Portland Institute of Contemporary Art) with the support of DRAC – Ile de France and SPEDIDAM Studio space grants: Ballet du Nord – CCN Roubaix Hauts de France, Centre national de danse ANGERS, Stuk Kunstencentrum Louvain, Agora/Montpellier danse, Trauma Bar & Kino
Press
"Fluïditeit als het hybride bindweefsel en tegengif voor binaire opposities."
Theaterkrant over Natural Drama
"... an impressive, wordless solo about the impact of gendered language on our brain and outlook on the world from a trans point of view."
Movement Exposed over Farci.e
