Yekta Khaghani

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Englisch, Farsi

In „Torshi, the body of Land“ reift die Erinnerung durch Rituale und intime Erzählungen. Dieses multidisziplinäre und mehrsprachige Theaterstück/Performance lädt das Publikum ein, sich einzubringen und am Ritual der Herstellung von eingelegtem Gemüse teilzunehmen, bei dem Gemüse zu Worten wird und Salz und Essig zur Absicht, unsere Erinnerungen an die physische und metaphorische Heimat zu bewahren. Das Einlegen von Gemüse nach iranischer Art wird zu einem Akt des Widerstands, der Trauer, des Feierns und zu einer Antwort auf den Lärm des Krieges. Durch Poesie und gemeinsame Gesten kommen Gemeinschaften zusammen, um das widerzuspiegeln, was der Konflikt nicht auslöschen kann: den Geschmack von Heimat, Hoffnung und Freiheit.

English version

In Torshi, the body of Land, memory ferments through ritual and intimate storytelling. This multidisciplinary and multilingual play/performance invites the audience to interact and participate as part of the ritual of creating pickles, where vegetables become words, and salt and vinegar become the intention to preserve our memories of physical and metaphorical home. Making Iranian-style pickles becomes an act of resistance, mourning, celebrating, and a response to the noise of war. Through poetry and shared gestures, communities gather to echo what conflict cannot erase: the taste of home, hope, and freedom.

Yekta Khaghani, the Iranian-born, New York-based playwright, theater maker, and educator, has created a collective of Iranian artists across New York in the U.S., Brussels in Belgium, and Bochum in Germany to develop this project through an intercontinental collaboration. Funded by the New York City Arts in Education Roundtable, this project was showcased for the first time at El Puente in Brooklyn as part of the Good Trouble Making program. This program was shaped to empower the community of artists in diaspora to create stories that disrupt and question the silence of the current sociopolitical climate.
The artists involved in New York showcase: Yekta Khaghani(playwright, performer), Reza Behjat(designer and artistic director), Leila Kashani Sabet(performer), Golbarg Jokar(performer), Nami nazar(composer)
The artists involved in Europe premier: Yekta Khaghani(playwright, performer), Reza Behjat(designer and artistic director), Bahar Sadafi(performer, dramaturgue), Sima Mobarakshahi(performer)
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Playwright/Performer: Yekta Khaghani
Performer: Sima Mobarak Shahi
Performer: Bahar Sadafi