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Nastaran Razawi Khorasani
photo by MarkBolk
Nastaran Razawi Khorasani
The Netherlands／Performance Artist
Nastaran Razawi Khorasani is a graduate of Maastricht Institute of Performative Arts. In 2014, she won the Gouden Krekel award for most impressive stage performance, and in 2020, she was nominated for the award for dance for young audiences of the Nederlandse Dansdagen. Her show Songs for no one received the BNG Bank Theatre Award (in 2020 and 2021), was selected for the 2022 Flemish Theater Festival as one of ‘the most interesting, socially relevant and innovative productions of the last season’, and in 2023 was also selected for Theater der Welt in Frankfurt-Offenbach. She was nominated for the Gieskes-Strijbis Podium Prize for her artwork in 2023. Her work has been presented globally (among others at Theater Commons Tokyo, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Indonesian Dance Festival, CÂMBIO Festival in Rio de Janeiro). This is not a dance was nominated for the VSCD Mime/Performance Prize 2024.
2026 project
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Having left her homeland, becoming an “orphan”, and later, a mother in the Netherlands, Razawi Khorasani sees another “self” in Iranian films and actresses who remained in her homeland.
Iran draws us all closer.
Iranian-Dutch performance artist Nastaran Razawi Khorasani presents a new live video installation unfolding across screen and stage. Building on her previous installation-based works, she deepens her method of “performative filmmaking”, where editing, image, and live presence are inseparably linked.
From her position rooted in West Asia, Razawi Khorasani questions a Western gaze through research into Asian video art, seeking reconnection with its artistic lineages. Drawing on a montage practice inspired by Iranian cinema, she reconsiders video editing as a bodily practice, inscribing moments in which rhythm and silence emerge onto the stage as a live presence.
Iran draws us all closer.
Iranian-Dutch performance artist Nastaran Razawi Khorasani presents a new live video installation unfolding across screen and stage. Building on her previous installation-based works, she deepens her method of “performative filmmaking”, where editing, image, and live presence are inseparably linked.
From her position rooted in West Asia, Razawi Khorasani questions a Western gaze through research into Asian video art, seeking reconnection with its artistic lineages. Drawing on a montage practice inspired by Iranian cinema, she reconsiders video editing as a bodily practice, inscribing moments in which rhythm and silence emerge onto the stage as a live presence.
