Iranian Alchemy by Ensemble Kamaan
Dance/Music
Description
Description
Explore the exotic world of Persian music through Iranian instruments
Embark on a journey back to the cradles of ancient civilisations
In the eclectic musical universe of Ensemble Kamaan, borders are abolished to make way for a bewitching alchemy through the mystical conversation between Amir Amiri’s santūr, Showan Tavakol’s kamāncheh, Behnaz Sohrabi’s rabab and Olivier Marin’s viola. Drawing on the diversity of Persian melodies, these four virtuosi venture into innovative territory, aspiring to universal connection.
It is in this perspective that they invite whirling dervish Shraddha Blaney into this project. Through the trance of her whirling, Shraddha Blaney traces the paths that lead to the Divine. Performing the ritual of rotation to become aligned with cosmic motion, a dervish (literally “doorway”) is an entrance from the material world to the spiritual world, a connection between the two worlds.
To the sound of finely ornamented music, reviving a Persian culture, the whirling of the dervish will be accompanied by a series of photographs of doors and windows, opened and closed, taken in the Iranian countryside.
Viola：Olivier Marin
Rabab：Behnaz Sohrabi
Kamāncheh：Showan Tavakol
Dervish：Shraddha Blaney
Info
$150
$250
Indoor
Non-local
