Education- Training
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Interdisciplinary Art, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, 2012
Bachelor of Art (Drama-Directing), University of Art, Tehran, Iran, 2001-2007
Bachelor of Art (Visual Art-Painting), Azad University of Art, Tehran, Iran, 2004-2007 (Didn’t finish it) Choreography and Contemporary
Dance Training, Conservatoire De La Danse, Rejane Douarre, DD Silhol, Paris, France, 2005
Butoh Workshop Training, Bazi Theater Company, Tehran, Iran, 2002-2005
Lokoc Workshop Training, Leev Theater Company, Tehran, Iran, 2004
WORK EXPERIENCE
Creating Digital Performance/ Cyberformance/ Multi Channel Installation
“<2-i-love>“, Work in Progress, Vancouver, Canada, Feb 2020 – Present
“Winter/ Interior/ A Doll’s House”, Iranshahr Theater Hall, Tehran, Iran, Feb 2020
“Monitoring [Tehran]”, Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition (TADAEX 04), Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran, Sep 2014
“Monitoring [A Doll’s House] – Installation“, Studio T, Goldcorp Center for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, Oct 2012
“adult’s room”, Studio T, Goldcorp Center for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, March 2011
Creating Interdisciplinary Performances
“The Closed Circuit”, Theatre Performance, Mostaghel Theater, Tehran, Iran, Feb 2017
“Monitoring [A Doll’s House]”, Theatre Performance, Studio T, Goldcorp Center for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Oct 2012
“Charisma”, Dance Performance, PUSH Festival- PushOff, Vancouver, Canada, Cultch Lab, Feb 2012
“Counterpoint #1”, Theatre Performance, Studio D, Goldcorp Center for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, October 2011
“Fake Memories” (White Dreams Never Come True!), Theatre Performance, Goldcorp Center for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Dec 2010 and April 2011
“Read Me” , Dance Performance, Studio D, Goldcorp Center for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, Sep 2010
“Charisma”, Dance Performance, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Amsterdam- Rotterdam- The Haugh- Groningen, Holland, Dec 2009, More than 10 reviews in Dutch Cities.
“Charisma”, Dance Performance, Molavi Hall(30 nights perform), Tehran, Iran, Dec2007-Jan2008 An Interview with the artistic magazine of Tehran, “Seven”, n.44, Jan 2008 More Than 6 reviews in: Etemad Newspaper(two), Donyaye Eghtesad Newspaper, Jam e Jam Newspaper, Shahrvand e Emrooz, Iran theatre Website and other Websites
“Yerma” by Lorca, Dance Performance, Fadjr International Theater Festival, Tehran, Iran, Sep- Nov 2007
“Jocasta”, Dance Performance, Directed by Mohammad Aghebati, Collaborative Program (India, Iran, Uzbekistan and Japan and Korea), Sep 2007
“Isable, Isable”, Dance Performance, University of Art, Tehran, Iran, Feb2006
Performance Art/ City Project
“Middle Game“, Work in Progress, Vancouver, Canada, Sep 2021
“Game[2 Vancouver]”, VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver, Canada, 2022
“Game”, Aliha Gallery, Tehran, Iran, September 2019
“Monitoring [Tehran]”, Tehran Annual Digital Art Exhibition (TADAEX 04), Mohsen Gallery, Tehran, Iran, Sep 2014
“Wandering in the City, Tehran around Neauphle-le-Chateau area”, ‘New Media Society’ and ‘Aaran Gallery’, Tehran, Iran, Aug 2015
Video
“Migrations”, Collaboration with Emily Neufeld, Window Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, Sep 2017
“Barego”, Video made for Rob Kitsos’ Quartet, Firehall Arts Centre, Dancing on the Edge Festival, Vancouver, Canada, July 2011
“Brownian Motion”, Video made for Rob Kitsos’ Dance Performance, Firehall Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada, May 2010
“Cityless “, based on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, March 2010
“Daily Monologues”, February 2010
Teaching Experience
Adjunct Professor, “Body Movement”, Tehran University of Art, Department of Cinema and Theatre, Tehran, Iran, 2013 – 2015
Adjunct Professor, “Introduction to Acting and Performing”, Tehran University of Art, Department of Cinema and Theatre, Tehran, Iran, 2018 – 2021
Instructor, “Digital Performance Making”, Barg Institute of Culture and Art, Tehran, Iran, 2017 – 2020
Instructor, “Intermediality in Performance”, Barg Institute of Culture and Art, Tehran, Iran, 2017 – 2020
Instructor, “Acting” and “Butoh Dance”, Bamdad House, Tehran, Iran, 2016 – 2020
Teacher Assistant for FPA 111, “Issues in Fine and Performing Arts”, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, January- April 2012
Teacher Assistant for FPA 285, “Composition/Collaboration” , Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, September- December 2011
Teacher Assistant for FPA 111, “Issues in Fine and Performing Arts”, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, January- April 2011
Dance and Theatre, Ross Road Elementary School, North Vancouver, BC, January – April 2010
Movements in Experimental Theatre, “Jeunesse et Culture” Association, Paris, France, Sep-Nov 2005
Butoh Dance, “Jeunesse et Culture” Association, Paris, France, Sep-Nov 2005
Leading Workshops
“Expand Your Executive Ideas!”, Interdisciplinary Workshop, Tehran, Iran, 2017 – 2020
“Performer’s Mind and Body”, Tehran, Iran, 2018 – 2020
“Rasaboxes”, Richard Schechner’s Rasaboxes, Tehran, Iran, 2016 – 2020
“Contemporary Dance”, Bamdad International House, Tehran, Iran, 2015 – 2017
“Wandering in the City, Tehran around Neauphle-le-Chateau area”, Hosting by ‘New Media Society’ and ‘Aaran Projects Gallery’, Tehran, Iran, Aug 2015
“Contemporary Dance”, Molavi Hall, Tehran, Iran, Jun 2007
“Movement for Women [Restraints and Solutions]“, Hosted by Leev Theatre Group, Women Theatre Festival, Tehran, Iran, May 2007
“Butoh Dance”, Shahr Theatre, Tehran, Iran, Jun-Jul 2006, Jul-Aug 2005
“Butoh Dance”, Hosted by Jeunesse et Culture Association, City Council of Paris, France, Sep-Nov 2005
“Contemporary Theater in Iran -Techniques and Visions”, Hosted by Jeunesse et Culture Association, City Council of Paris, France, Sep-Nov 2005
Acting in Theater
“Devil’s Ship”, Directed by Attila Pessyani, Shahr Theater, Tehran, Iran, Apr 2009
“Devil’s Ship”, Directed by Attila Pessyani, Edinburgh International Festival, Aug2008, and Fajr International Theatre Festival, Jan2008
“An out-of-Tuned Symphony”, Directed by Attila Pessyani, Molavi Hall, Tehran, Iran, Dec2007-Jan2008
“The silence of the sea”, Directed by Guilda Hamidi, Master Theses, University of Art, Tehran, Iran, July 2007
“The Butterfly And Yoke”, Directed by Arvand Dasht Araay, Paris, France, Mar2007
“Sure Thing”, Directed by Mehrdad Ghayoumi, University of Art, Tehran, Iran, Mar2006
“The Only Possible Way”, Directed by Mohammad Yaghoubi, Tehran, Iran, Aug2005
“Medea”, Directed by Leili Galledaran, Master Theses, University of Art, Tehran, Iran, Sep2005
Dancing
“Shahr-Bazi”, Directed by Attila Pessyani for a musical band, Choreographed and Performed by Pegah Tabassinejad, Shahr Theater, Sep 2018
“Solo”, Directed by Mona Shokrayi, Interaction Design, Master theses, University of Art, Jul 2007
“Isable, Isable”, My Bachelor Theses, University of Art, Tehran, Iran, Feb2006
“Solo Pour L’Enfant Mort”, Choreography by Rejane Douarre, Saint Severin Church, Paris, France, Oct2005
Acting in Film
“Ashkan, Sacred Circlet and Some Other Stories”, a Film by Shahram Mokri, 27th Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, 2009, Art and Experience, Tehran, Iran, 2015
“Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day”, A Short Film by Ahmad Talooni and Sajad Avini,26th International Fajr Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, Dec2007-Jan2008
Writing
“Re-emerging Iranian Artists in Vancouver”, a lecture for a Panel Discussion on Performance Art Institutions and Audiences [What Communities Want? Towards the Diversity of Collaboration], LIVE International Performance Art Biennale, Live from Vancouver, BC, Nov 4-6, 2021
“Winter/ Interior/ A Doll’s House”, Play, 2018-2020
“The Closed Circuit”, Play, 2015-2016
“The liminality of the presence of the performers: A research on character’s individuation, Essay, December 2012
“Dramaturgy in Iran”, Essay, April 2011
“Fake Memories”, Play, 2011
“Devising Theatre: Value of the process than final product.”, Essay, November 2010
“Who Am I In This Paradise? or How Immigrants have To Perform a New Identity”, Essay, December 2009
“Don’t Touch The Orange Curtain!”, A Short Film directed by Yalda Jebeli, 23rd Fajr International Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, Jan31-Feb10, 2005
Awards/ Grants / Residencies / Conferences
Concept to Realization Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver, BC, 2022
Research and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver, BC, Nov 2022
Panel Discussion on Performance Art Institutions and Audiences [What Communities Want? Towards the Diversity of Collaboration], LIVE International Performance Art Biennale, Live from Vancouver, BC, Nov 4-6, 2021
Residency with Battery Opera, Vancouver, BC, July 2021
Project Assistance for Visual Artists Grant, British Columbia Arts Council, Vancouver, BC, March 2021
Research and Creation Component of Explore and Create Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver, BC, Nov 2020
Panel Discussion on “Intermedial Theater”, Reconnect Festival, Live from Tehran, Iran, Mar 29, 2020
Elsie Jang Graduate Fellowship in Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Sep 2011
Residency with The Wooster Group, One Month, New York, US, Oct 2011
Graduate International Research Travel Award, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Mar 2011
Graduate Fellowship, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Sep 2010
Professional Development Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts, Vancouver, BC, Mar 2009
Residency with Theatre de l’Epi d’Or, Three Months, Paris, France, 2005