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Fariborz Karimi

Oh, Wild Gazelle, Where are you?

Live from Iran, a choreographer directs a collective dream as a gesture of resistance. Because even though it might not persist in reality, there’s freedom in a dream. This performance implicitly makes different forms of censorship tangible.

Driven by personal experiences with censorship and the palpable expectations from the West, Fariborz Karimi uses theater as a collective means of resistance and reflection. He creates overlapping realities between Tehran and Amsterdam, private and public, and dream and reality to embody how censorship and surveillance unfold in our lives.

Fariborz Karimi (1990, Iran) focuses on collective making and thinking. He explores fragments of socio-political issues through the mundanity of conversations and phonecalls.