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THEATER AN DER RUHR: Women of Revolution Avenue
Theater play | (Her)Story of an uprising
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Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr
- Language German, English, Persian
- Price 10,00 – 18,00 €
At the beginning there is emptiness and defeat – the revolution seems lost, failed by the regime, patriarchal structures and fears. But the desire not to give up remains. At the centre is Revolution Street, a symbol of women’s resistance in Iran since 1979. Here bodies become an expression of protest, weapons in the fight for freedom and justice. The story begins in 2017 with Vida Movahed’s courageous protest and spans the arc back to the women’s uprisings of 1979 and the protests after Mahsa Jina Amini’s death in 2022.
People use their bodies to fight against oppression, dance on Tehran’s streets, demand change and defy state power. Their places of retreat – ruins and abandoned houses that become archives of resistance, where new ideas and a theatre of uprising emerge. This piece tells of the struggle for freedom, of women who challenge generations of oppression and find their voices.
In fall of 2022, Ayat Najafi led a series of underground theater workshops in Tehran during the women’s uprising. From this work, an ensemble emerged, which he has continued to develop in Berlin with international artists since 2023.
Direction: Ayat Najafi
tage/Costumes: Sabina Moncys
Choreography: Frank Willens
Video: Guillaume Lenoble
Music: Sébastien Apert
Dramaturgy: Sarah Marée
Assistant director: Luca Lehnert
Production management: ehrliche arbeit – freies Kulturbüro
A production by Ayat Najafi and Arta Atelier Kollektiv in co-operation with Ballhaus Ost and Theater an der Ruhr, funded by the Hauptstadtkulturfonds. In collaboration with Goethe-Institut im Exil. With the kind support of the Château de Monthelon.
Direction
Ayat Najafi
Ayat Najafi is a multimedia artist, film and theater director, born in Tehran and based in Berlin. His focus is on interdisciplinary and multimedia theater as well as experimental short films and documentaries. His art, theater and film projects are strongly based on research and focus on gender justice, human rights, intercultural dialogue, ecological issues and everyday life.
He has produced plays at Hebbel Am Ufer, Ballhaus Ost and Iranian Artists’ Forum, Tehran, among others. His two feature documentaries Football Undercover (2008) and No Land’s Song (2014) were shown at more than a hundred international festivals and won numerous awards. His latest feature film The Sun Will Rise (2023) premiered at the Biennale di Venezia – Cinema as the opening film of the Giornate degli Autori.
In 2017, he co-founded ARTA ATELIER BERLIN, which creates hybrid experiential spaces through inter- and transdisciplinary thinking and projects. He was co-creator of the collective art project SANDSTORM – And Then There Was DUST. This ecological and long-term project aimed to create hybrid experiential spaces through inter- and transdisciplinary thinking and production.
The exhibition presenting the results of the project opened in September 2020 at Depo Istanbul with artists from Iran, Iraq and Turkey and followed in fall 2021 at Galerie im Körnerpark Berlin.
Location
Akazienallee 61
45478 Mülheim a. d. Ruhr
Germany
Agenda
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BALLHAUS OST: Women of Revolution Avenue
Theater play | (Her)Story of an uprising
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Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
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BALLHAUS OST: Women of Revolution Avenue
Theater play | (Her)Story of an uprising
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Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
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BALLHAUS OST: Women of Revolution Avenue
Theater play | (Her)Story of an uprising
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Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
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BALLHAUS OST: Women of Revolution Avenue
Theater play | (Her)Story of an uprising
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Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
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THEATER AN DER RUHR: Women of Revolution Avenue
Theater play | (Her)Story of an uprising
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Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr
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THEATER AN DER RUHR: Women of Revolution Avenue
Theater play | (Her)Story of an uprising
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Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim a. d. Ruhr
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