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  • Mourners Project / Music Album

    Mourners Project / Music Album

    On a melancholic evening in a house in central Tehran, we performed an hour and fifteen minutes of improvisation with two synthesizers, the Korg Minilogue and the Korg Opsix. This album is the raw outcome of that session, only lightly edited, with some sections left behind.

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  • Bouger mes bras et mes jambes | (working title)

    Bouger mes bras et mes jambes | (working title)

    Depuis que je suis ici, j’ai lu des lettres d’artistes partis à l’étranger à leurs amis. Il y a quelque temps, j’ai lu une lettre d’un écrivain iranien Gholamhossein Saadi, à son amoureuse. ça a été comme si je l’avais écrite moi-même :

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  • While we’re here, they’re already dead | (working title)

    While we’re here, they’re already dead | (working title)

    for performer, ghosts, objects, audience, and space  -While we’re here, they’re already dead- consists of five main materials: a light table, a camera, several artificial hands, and objects. Each of these materials comes from different places.

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  • May I show you?

    May I show you?

    A self-portrait The starting point of this piece began a few years ago. When many different incidents, images, and events began to penetrate my mind. Some stayed, some got transformed and some made changes in me.

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  • WARM-UP

    WARM-UP

    [:en]What do you learn from the shape and technique of the anti-protesters police?

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  • Instrument of Unification

    Instrument of Unification

    [:en]In 2016, filming Tehran began. We freely filmed the city. In every step the aim of the project was reaching an amateur production and it still is.

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  • The Light Desk

    The Light Desk

    [:en]The Light Desk is an one-audience performance that is trying to represent the systems that we encounter in our everyday life.

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  • Radio City

    Radio City

    Radio city, is a documentary performance, based on life and work of a theater group in 40th decade of Iran.

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  • Rehearsal-Performance

    Rehearsal-Performance

    This event explores the theories behind idlearts and demonstrates short rehearsals and performance pieces on them.

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  • ORGAN SOLO

    ORGAN SOLO

    [:en] ORGAN SOLO is a trial and error about: – processed from represent to present.

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  • ÉPÉE

    ÉPÉE

    ÉPÉE Éepée was an experiment to see the bodies of two fencer, in the context of a performance.

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  • Asylum

    Asylum

    Asylum is the product of our insignificance. The language of the play, continuing the way of our previous play “Forti”, is a made-up language.

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  • Red Riding Hood

    Red Riding Hood

    The Red Riding Hood is a free adaptation of a folk tale named Little red riding hood. (in Iran this story is known as SHENEL GHERMEZI).

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  • IT

    IT

    IT/ Performance by Ehsan Shayanfard/ Rooberoo Mansion Open Space/

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  • FORTI

    FORTI

    FORTI is a story of a family which we see their dine in five different night. The Language spoken in this play isn’t Persian or any known language for that matter; But a unique language designed for FORTI.

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  • Ehsan

    [:en] Ehsan SHAYANFARD (Persian: احسان شایان فرد)Director, Choreographer, Performance Artist1991 - Tehran, Currently Montpellier FranceBA, Information Technology - Iran University of science and Technology - 2009-2013BA, Dramaturgy - University of Art - Cinema and Theater Faculty - 2013-2017Studying in MA, Choreography - ICI-CCN Montpellier - 2022Contact: Shayanfard@idlearts.ir Shayanfard@gmail.com https://www.facebook.com/eshayanfard Image By Elien Vervaet   Initially…

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  • People

    Ehsan Shayanfard (*1991), DirectorStudied Dramatic literature at Tehran University of Art and has been working as a theater director since 2011. He directed some onstage theatre and also interactive pieces. Since 2015, he tried to make performances in unconventional spaces, like garages, open spaces, and backstages.He founded idlearts.ir (https://idlearts.ir/) as an independent group that is…

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  • The Tragic Changes of Sir SAAD`s Life

    The Tragic Changes of Sir SAAD`s Life

    It has a story about a mental ill (Schizophrenia) who is keeping in an old house as a private psychiatric house. Most of the story is in stating motionless with the patient’s long monologue explaining the things around him.

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