friday 12 april – 8 pm
Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna – Aula Magna
Sorour Darabi (Iran/F)
Farci.e
performance, italian première
In Farci.e, Darabi confronts the violence of language, exerienceda a true ingurgitation of established norms. What if you were coming from a neutral world and, all of a sudden, everything had a gender? The Iranian dancer Sorour Darabi has a personal answer to this question. In her/his mother tongue, Farsi, there is neither a masculine nor a feminine form. Ever since s/he has been living in France, s/he continues to find ways of adapting to a world in which literally everything is either masculine or feminine. With no exception. In Farsi, the word ‘gender’ is pronounced ‘جنسیت jenssiat’, which means material. When it applies to objects, it refers to their materiality. When it applies to living beings, humans or animals, it refers to their sexes. Therefore, in her/his language, the ‘gender of the table is wood.’ So, is her/his gender the skin, the flesh, the bones, the muscles, the blood, the blood vessels, the capillaries, the cells …?
Sorour Darabi is a self-taught Iranian artist living and working in Paris. Working actively in Iran, s/he was part of the underground organisation ICCD, whose festival Untimely (Teheran) hosted their work before their departure for France. During studies at the CCN de Montpellier s/he created the solo Subject to Change, a performance that questions transformation with regards to time and one’s cohabitation with an environment. In 2016, s/he created Farci.e, a solo dealing with notions of language, gender identity and sexuality, premièring at the Festival Montpellier Danse. In 2018, s/he created Savušun, an ode to vulnerability, to affect and to beings who are affected, inspired by the grieving ceremonies of the Muharram, that deals with emotions: grief, fear, and suffering. S/he has also performed with Jule Flierl and Pauline Brun. Her/his work has toured extensively in Europe, finding an echo on contemporary sensibility concerning insidious forms af authority. Darabi reaffirms the beauty of permanently changing living gesture.
concept, choreography and performance Sorour Darabi
light design Yannick Fouassier
lighting operator Jean-Marc Ségalen
outside eye Mathieu Bouvier
administration Charlotte Giteau
touring Sandrine Barrasso
production Météores
coproduction
Festival Montpellier Danse, ICI-CCN de Montpellier Occitanie Midi-Pyrénées
with the support of CND Pantin in the frame of a residency, Honolulu-Nantes and Théâtre de Vanves
special thanks to Loïc Touze, Raïssa Kim, Florence Diry, Pauline Brun, Jule Flierl, Clair.E Olivelli, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
presented with the support of Institut français d’Italie