This performance explores themes of exoticization, censorship, imagination, friendship, and dreams. The main reason this performance came into being is due to a remote collaboration with Negar, a choreographer from Iran. She is a female dancer and choreographer based in Iran, who has faced political limitations regarding dance, leading to her state of disappearance from the public scene. The fact that she is choreographing the space without being physically present reflects the importance of collaboration for us, even though she would not be allowed to create her piece in her own context.
Sharing this reality with a Western audience in a Western European context creates certain projections, such as pitying or victimizing. Addressing these projections and the exotification they entail one of the main concepts of the work. How do we deal with these perceptions?