DARIUS DOLATYARI-DOLATDOUST
THE MUSEUM AS PERFORMANCE
I BECOME THEM, 40’
Performance
13 OCT | 14:30. 18:30
Installation
12-13 OCT | 10:00 - 19.00
A felted fresco: a fantasized landscape, an open window. Four performers. A coat. An apron. A skirt. A glove. A mask. Meetings.
I BECOME THEM is a performance where the costume is innately choreographic. Its colors, textures and shapes offer scores for each performer. By wearing these costumes, they accept being contaminated, experimenting transformations for new bodies to emerge. Throughout a work around body, voice and language, the landscapes start moving. A dialogue arises - Creatures appearing, bodies disappearing. They become a moving landscape: blurring the borders of humanity. This performance is a ritual to remember, feel and dance with the past.
Felt feel
Feel Felt
Felted feelings
A mouth full of felt
Choreography Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust
Performers Maureen Béguin-Morin, Marcos Nacar, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Mallaury Scala
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Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust is an artist, performer, choreographer, and designer, born in 1994 in France with Iranian, Polish and German roots. His approach revolves around the manufacture of costumes, which he considers in turn as a space of transformation and hybridization, in its capacity to modify our relationship to the body, dance, and language. Clothing thus becomes a means of questioning one’s identity, whether by recalling one’s Iranian origins, creating costumes inspired by Persian works from the Louvre, deconstructing our dominant relationship to other species, and by imagining hybrid creatures on the border of humans and animals. He also developed textile scenographic projects for film sets or choreographic shows but also for his visual artwork. Textile becomes a material where its graphic and illustrative research finally materializes. He will be in residency at la Villa Kujoyama in 2025.