Modjgan Hashemian

Modjgan Hashemian has been present and networked as a choreographer throughout Berlin and internationally for many years. The leitmotifs of her artistic work are, among other things, fragile communication and the search for common grounds of understanding, even beyond linguistic barricades; spaces in which movement is under restriction and must open up counter-worlds of development in its own urgency, in general: structures of dominance under which people also bend in the literal sense; finally, the break with stereotypical (body) images and gender clichés. Hashemian’s Iranian family context - her parents finally moved to Germany after the revolution in 1979 - is always a point of reference and starting point for building bridges between German and Iranian contemporary society. In addition to her own productions, she works with Nurkan Erpulat in the field of spoken and musical theatre and opera, among others. She works at the Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin and gives guest performances at the Thikwa Theatre, German National Theatre Weimar, National Theatre Baghdad/Iraq, Regensburg Theatre, Dresden State Operetta and in Tehran’s independent scene. Hashemian was also a mentor at the Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin (HZT), a jury member at the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Tanztreffen der Jugend.