MARDOM

Sina Saberi

In the choreographic research project MARDOM, Sina Saberi examines pain and justice. At its core lies the question: how does pain affect the individual body and, in turn, the collective body? The project draws on Saadi Shirazi’s 13th-century poem Bani Adam, which understands humanity as a single body—when one part suffers, all suffer. Embodied movement, visual art, and literature merge into a lived experience for public and semi-public spaces, asking how despotic structures imprint themselves on our psychosomatic realities, and how bodies respond, remember, or resist.

  • Studio 2
    Tanzhaus Zürich
    Wasserwerkstrasse 127a
    8037 Zürich

  • Wheelchair accessible

Concept, choreography Sina Saberi
Dance, collaboration Alexander Varekhine, Elise Luinaard, Maxime Jeannerat, Anca Huma
Media art Mina Mohseni
Music Ali Phi
Dramaturgical support Guy Cools
Photos Dieter Hartwig

Sina Saberi

Sina Saberi is a performer, choreographer, and cultural manager based in Germany. His practice and research draw on his cultural background and explore dance as an alternative state of being. He asks where the personal and the public can connect and ultimately arrive at a point of togetherness. This question is reflected in his trilogy Prelude, Damnoosh, and Narges, which he has been presenting internationally since 2016. Sina is the director of Kakeshan.org and has been an organizer within the Iranian dance scene since 2014—first in Tehran and now in the diaspora.