SOROUR DARABI is Iranian choreographer who lives and works in France since 2013. Very active in Iran, he was a part of the underground association ICCD whose Untimely festival (Tehran) hosted his works before his departure for France. In 2013, he joined the Master Ex.e.r.ce at ICI-CCN in Montpellier, from which he graduated in 2015. In this context, he created the solo Subject to Change, a performance that questions transformation through time and in co- habitation with the environment.
In 2016, he created Farci.e, a solo dealing with notions of language, gender identity and sexuality, as part of the Montpellier danse festival. His next piece, Savušun, premiered in 2018, is an ode to affection, vulnerability and affected beings, a solo of a collective grief.
His plays have been shown in many theaters and festivals in France and abroad: Palais de Tokyo (Paris - France), Festival d’Automne à Paris (Paris - France), Festival Montpellier Danse, Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zürich - Switzerland), Tanzquartier (Vienna - Austria), Tanztage Festival (Berlin - Germany), BIPOD Festival (Beirut - Lebanon), Jerk Off Festival (Paris - France), December Dance Festival (Bruges - Belgium), A corner in the World Festival (Istanbul - Turkey), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels - Belgium), Center national de la danse (Pantin - France), Spring Festival (Amsterdam - Netherlands), Festival Latitudes contemporaines (Lille - France), Festival Far (Nyon - Switzerland), Festival URBAN! (Cologne - Germany), Bad Festival (Bilbao - Spain), Onassis Cultural Center (Athens - Greece), Next Festival (Valenciennes - France), Festival Trente Trente (Bordeaux - France), Festival Parallèle (Marseille - France), Centro 2 de Mayo (Madrid - Spain ), Oslo Internasjonale Teaterfestival (Oslo - Norway), Théâtre de l’Usine (Geneva - Switzerland), Xing (Bologna - Italy), Beursschouwburg (Brussels - Belgium), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna - Austria), Festival TransAmériques (Montreal - Canada ), Slovenian Dance Festival (Maribor - Slovenia), Kaserne Basel (Basel - Switzerland), Zodiak (Helsinki - Finland), Kampnagel (Hamburg - Germany), Sophiensaele (Berlin - Germany), Uzès Danse (Uzès - France), Alkantara (Lisbon - Portugal), Fondation Lafayette Anticipations (Paris - France), Center Georges Pompidou, (Paris - France) Tanzquartier (Vienna - Austria), Campo (Ghent - Belgium), My Wild Flag (Stockholm - Sweden), Trauma Bar Und Kino (Berlin - Germany), PROA Fondation (Buenos Aires - Argentina)..
In 2020, in response to a commission from the Kunstenfestivaldesarts, he created Mowgli (premiere initially scheduled for May 2020 at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts and May 2021 at the Kunstenfestivalde- sarts due to the Covid 19 crisis), inspired by the jungle as an infinite territory at the crossroads of contemporary myths. In 2021, in the same year he created Natural Drama, the result of research initiated in 2018, which questions the notion of “Nature”. His latest project, a trilogy, developed and shared on the occasion of his residency at Palais de Tokyo in November 2022, inspired Sorour Darabi for a new project, Mille et Une Nuits, a contemporary opera, which visits the notion of “Night” through Scheherazade‘a perspective. In addition to his creations, Sorour Darabi regularly gives workshops for advanced or professional artists / dancers, the last of which took place at Trauma Bar Und Kino in Berlin (Germany) in February 2023. Thanks to his latests projects, these fews last years, new collaborators enrich his artistic universe: Eléna Tissier, Pablo Altar, Detente, Ange Halliwell among others.
