As a part of My wild flag 2023, I contributed to “From the throat to the dawn” by Sorer Darabi in the Stockholm iteration of the piece presented as a part of the festival My Wild Flag. Photos by Egor Kaleshchuk

A place emerges, holding us as a whole at the same time as many intimate, social, political fragments.

An affective landscape envelops us in the skin of a futuristic fantasy awaiting a belated renaissance.

 A place where we are not just political concepts, but emotional landscapes that slowly morphs those they look at. Where the skin is as thick as a body itself and as fragile as the liminal of two screams. Where our bodies of rage – our transformative power-create a substance of tear, sweat and voice to quench the earth’s thirst.

Artistic direction: Sorour Darabi

Guest: Lune, Ellen Söderhult, Escarleth Romo Pozo

Music composition and live music performance by: Pablo Altar  & Detente 

Scenography: Alicia Zaton on an original idea of Sorour Darabi, in collaboration with local company/provider 

Light design: Shaly Lopez

Production: Deep Dawn aka Mi-Mai 

Production and tour management: Lynda Rahal

Performance co-produced & premiered at Palais de Tokyo Paris , in the frame of La Manutention residency & Trauma Bar Und Kino 

Sorour Darabi

Sorour Darabi is an Iranian choreographer who lives and works in France since 2013. Very active in Iran, he is part of the underground association ICCD whose Untimely festival (Tehran) hosted his works before his departure for France. In 2013, he joined the Master Exerce at ICI-CCN in Montpellier, from which he graduated in 2015. In this context, he created the solo Subject to Change, a performance that questions transformation through time and in cohabitation with the environment.

Since then, he created Farci.e, a solo dealing with notions of language, gender identity and sexuality; Savušun, premiered in 2018, is an ode to affection, vulnerability, and affected beings, which draws inspiration from Muharram’s mourning ceremonies and addresses the issue of emotions: grief, fear, and suffering.

In 2021, in response to a commission from the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, he created Mowgli inspired by the jungle as an infinite territory at the crossroads of contemporary myths. In 2021, he created Natural Drama, the result of research initiated in 2018, which questions the notion of “Nature”. In November 2022 on a residency “La Manutention” at Palais de Tokyo in Paris, he organized a tribology; 3 nights 3 shows around figure of Scheherazade; the last night was dedicated to a durational performance “From the Throat to the Dawn”. Sorour is currently working on his first group show: Mille et Une Nuits, a contemporary opera for Montpellier Dance festival in 2024.

His plays have been shown in many theaters and festivals in France and abroad.

Sorour Darabi regularly gives workshops for advanced or professional artists / dancers, the last of which took place in Berlin at Trauma Bar Und Kino in January 2023.