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Cette actvité se déroule entièrement en anglais.

Organised by Kunstenfestivaldesarts and ULB in collaboration with La Bellone, Le Cifas et Research Group THEA.

Six researchers and well-known artists sketch an unpublished, hybrid image of the reality of Iran’s theatre scene, where permanent negotiations with the authorities and the city render theatre life both effervescent and complex. The day is taken up with theorising on the socio-political workings of theatre spaces, supplemented by the artists’ concrete experiences.

PART I

14:00 - 14:20
Introduction : Mohammadamin Zamani

14:20 - 15:00
Farzan Sojoodi and Misagh Nemat Gorgani
Place and its social-historical functions in Iranian theatre

Farzan Sojoodi, linguist and semiologist, is professor of the Theatre Department at the Tehran University of Arts, former president of the Department of Semiotics at the Iranian Academy of the Arts and member of the Tehran Semiotic Circle. He has translated and drafted, amongst others, several publications and articles on semiotics in the field of theatre, art and literature. He has also directed theses and dissertations in the fields of performing arts, cinema, painting, photography and literature within a semiotic and linguistic scope.

Misagh Nemat Gorgani is PhD student in arts studies at the Isfahan University of Arts. His research focuses on the issue of the Iranian theatre's audience. He is currently working on his thesis called "The Social Critic of the Legitimate Taste of Tehran's Theatre Audience".

15:00 - 15:30
Azade Shahmiri
Between the centre and the margin : a new aspect to an emerging "in between" theatre space in Tehran

Azade Shahmiri is a theatre artist, researcher and senior lecturer. She works on her thesis entitled "The Representation of the "West" in the Iranian Dramatic Texts". Her interdisciplinary research in performing arts has been published as a book and several articles in different journals and reviews. Her theatrical work is based on research and narration. Her last creation, Damas, is a performance-conference played in Tehran, Zurich and Gwangju.

15:30 - 16:00

Mohammadamin Zamani
The Iranshahr Theater, the story of an Achilles’ heel

Mohammadamin Zamani is PhD candidate in performing arts at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and FNRS research fellow. He studies the spatial organisation of today's theatre scene in Tehran and is co-founder and editor of Simia, a specialized journal in dramatic literature. He has been publishing in Persian and French on the relations of the Iranian Theatre with its sociopolitical context in different historical periods.

(BREAK between 16:00 & 17:00)

PART II

17:00 - 17:45
Naghmeh Samini
Iranian home, Iranian Identity on stage

Naghmeh Samini, playwright, scriptwriter and journalist, is also professor and member of the scientific committee at the Theatre Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran and affiliate professor at the University of Washington (UW). She belongs to the most frequently performed Iranian contemporary playwrights. She did research and published about the dramatization of oriental myths and legends, more specifically the One Thousand and One Nights.

17:45 - 18:30
Amir Reza Koohestani
Experience of space (a discussion with Mohammadamin Zamani and Azade Shahmiri)

Amir Reza Koohestani is stage director and playwright, and surely the best known and worldwide presented theatre man. Among his plays making his international reputation, we can find Dance on Glasses (2001), Recent experience (2005), Amid the Clouds (2007), and Timeloss (2013).

18:30 - 19:00
Q&A with all speakers