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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)
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)
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?
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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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
[: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, is a documentary performance, based on life and work of a theater group in 40th decade of Iran.
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Rehearsal-Performance
This event explores the theories behind idlearts and demonstrates short rehearsals and performance pieces on them.
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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
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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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
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.








