I believe that the performing arts as a time-based entity, creates a unique opportunity to explore the mutual lines of attendance and presence shared between the performer and the audience, where one can exceed the limits of boundaries and dissimilarities and delve into the collective human emotions, the essence of existence and of being; as a result, by conjoining different elements of movement, sound, objects and multimedia, the body in my pieces usually reaches a moment of culmination and inundation where I use it as a tool to imagine and portray shunned, hushed emotions.

 

Bio

Hiva is an Iranian choreographer, dancer and performance artist from Tehran, and currently based in New York City.  Coming from a background of architecture, photography and literature, she first got to know Contemporary Dance via the underground scene in Tehran which gave her the opportunity to bring together her personal, social and political experiences through making interdisciplinary pieces that are a mixture of dance, theatre and video.She continued her journey in this field by participating in various workshops, masterclasses, intensive programs and laboratories in Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Europe and most recently in NYC.Her Dance Pieces: “Through the Skin”, “Azi Dahaka”, and “Room" have been presented at festivals across Europe and the Middle East, including the MaHa Body Movement Festival, the Beirut International Platform of Dance, The Zürcher Theatre Spektakel, and Spring Dance Festival.She has participated in many international artistic residencies and has a strong passion for collaboration and exchange with different cultures and artists from around the world, her artistic journey which live somewhere between personal quotidian events and common human emotions, create a space for improvisation, imagination, transformation and communication as a response from the introverted body of an Iranian woman, vulnerable at times, resilient at others.

Her recent researches and current projects are more into the roots of her Iranian heritage within culture and literature, and their relation and their relation with the contemporary human in a more global context