SHIRAZ

With Shiraz, Armin Hokmi revives the memory of a forgotten festival, a dance between homage and fiction, where memory becomes material for fabulation.

From 1967 to 1977, the Shiraz Arts Festival in southern Iran brought together artists from all over the world in a radical celebration of the performing arts. This daring project, brutally interrupted on the eve of the Iranian revolution, became the starting point for Shiraz, a choreographic creation for six performers. A gesture emerges, nourished by the resonances of a place, a suspended time, a desire: that of an open stage as a terrain for experimentation, listening and shared invention. Between minimal abstraction and oriental echoes, Shiraz deploys a refined choreographic style, with minute modulations. The dancers cross paths, scatter and meet again in a hypnotic score. Armin Hokmi's aim here is not to freeze a memory, but to inhabit it, to invent it from the present. Dance becomes a place of emergence and fabulation, where other narratives and fictions are invented. A collective, sensory and lively research project that affirms the stage's ability to reactivate what time might have erased.