Saghar Hosseinpour
DO NOT CHANGE THE PLACE OF THAT PLANT
2024
February 6 at 18:00
SOMA
Performance
Duration: About 1 hour
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5€ / 7€
Coproduced with SOMA
Project initiated in the framework of master exerce Études chorégraphiques – Recherche et représentation by ICI—Centre chorégraphique national Montpellier Occitanie / Direction Christian Rizzo, in partnership with Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3
DO NOT CHANGE THE PLACE OF THAT PLANT is a speech act. In this performance, Saghar Hosseinpour reveals her life stories of confrontation with the notion of art, dance and the impact of displacement. Her reference is her writings with a non-chronological order that constantly changes her position with the audience.
« I walk on this edge, tying the fragments of memory that draw the path from art to life. To do this, I must constantly stop, see, and change. » — Saghar Hosseinpour.
Saghar works with a practice she calls the 'Practice of Change'. By disrupting her thoughts and embracing the loss of control, she forges an evident discipline to open space to remember, recall and edit in real time. This practice reveals the possibility of situations where she becomes a mediator rather than a creator.
Credits
Distribution
Author and performer: Saghar Hosseinpour
External eye: Pauline L. Boulba, Myrto Katsiki, Anne Kerzerho, Katerina Andreou, Chantal Akerman
Writing mentor: Myrto Katsiki
Simultaneous interpreter (English to French): Lisanne Goodhue
Great thanks to Alix De Morant, Anne Lacoste, João Fiadeiro, Sarah Feli, Ali Moini, Katerina Bakazaki, Sara Manente, Master’s EXERCE colleagues, and the whole team of EXERCE
Support
Project initiated in the framework of master exerce Études chorégraphiques – Recherche et représentation by ICI—Centre chorégraphique national Montpellier Occitanie / Direction Christian Rizzo, in partnership with Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3.
Photos
© ICI - centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier/Occitanie
Biography
Saghar Hosseinpour is a dance artist and practice-based researcher. She creates situations that embrace constant change and unpredictability. Challenging the characterizations, and labels to reveal their hidden possibilities, she insists on moments of presence that can penetrate the banality of everyday life and its repetitive tasks disrupting linear time.
She has always worked between disciplines and contexts, welcoming practices such as writing, real-time editing, urban architecture, and artificial intelligence…, in which she can learn, coexist, and disappear. She did her MA exerce at ICI—Centre chorégraphique national Montpellier Occitanie.
