kiana rezvani (born in west Iran, based in Berlin, Germany) is an artist, choreographer and researcher developing choreographic and performative formats that blend dance, text, video and voice and are presented at theaters, galleries and independent curatorial spaces. Their artistic practice revolves around histories and narratives that are forgotten, untold, concealed and suppressed. Weaving together personal and collective memories and finding distinct parallels and intersections, kiana's works craft new relations and realms of possibility, critically examining colonial and imperial constructs, and thereby, creating a space for poetic resilience. Their solo and collaborative works have been shown at Sophiensaele, Uferstudios, Dock 11, Scwankhalle and Theater im Depot among others. cyber ghosts (2022) and cycle of ruins (2023) were Kiana’s latest performances premiered in Berlin.

to recognize that we can not move in the pathways that we already had, 

one asks then how is it that we should move?
departing from questions around ownership, be/longing and otherness in the relationship between body and land,
one asks:
can we radicalize our imagination of the future?

tenderness is investigated as an ability to be affected; an openness
a recalling of our struggle
a gap in existing in the ways which have been prescribed to us
a temporal suspension and pause to locate ourselves and understand what we can bring to this moment of normalized crisis and violence

acknowledging our collective exhaustion,
this dance is a letter, a fiction
a witness
that remembers
patiently, introspectively, moving towards a fragile hope

In this choreographic work—through writing, image-making, dancing, and engaging with archives—I navigate the spaces between testimony, memory, and the fragile edge of political imagination.

in this delicate act of attending, comes heartbreak
and a remembrance of the entangled futures we carry
dance is a return
to longing
in every gesture, emerging through repetition, rupture, and transformation

and what remains after loss,
is a call toward life, toward practice