Villa Arson welcomes Iranian choreographer, dancer and director, Tanin Torabi, in residence from September 2, 2024 to August 31, 2025. Made with the support of the Collège de France, this residency will enable Tanin Torabi to pursue her choreographic research through performance and film projects. She will be collaborating with Caroline Challan Belval on her Drawing & Architecture course as an invited artist, and offers the Movement in Focus: A Playground course to the Villa Arson students. Moreover, she will offer Screendance-Making workshops and film screenings during her residency period.
With over ten years of experience in dance filmmaking, she has distinguished herself with her single-take short dance films in Tehran’s urban spaces, described by critics as “pushing the boundaries of screendance”.
In 2021, she was featured by Dance Magazine as “one of the nine screendance artists you should know about”.
Her work has been shown at over 200 festivals and institutions worldwide, and has won numerous awards.
Tanin Torabi is regularly invited to lead workshops abroad (The Place London, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, ArtEZ Arnhem, Mov’in Cannes, Tetralab Screendance) and as a jury member at festivals (Mov’in Cannes as part of the Festival de Danse de Cannes, France – Dance Camera West, USA – Jacksonville Dance Film Festival, USA).
Her film Until (2023) won the Grand Jury Prize at Cinedans (Netherlands), the Best Original Story Award at the ZED Festival (Italy), the Jury Prize at the AVIFF artist film festival in Cannes and the Special Mention of the Cinédanse 2024 Sept-Îles in Quebec.
The Derive, made in 2017, is one of the most frequently showcased dance films at festivals, winning numerous awards, including Best Film at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival, Dance Camera West Film Festival (USA) and Southampton Film Week (UK).
As a choreographer and performer, she has collaborated with numerous artists internationally, including the NYC-based choreographer Yoshiko Chuma in her international shows called Love Story: Zooma-Dead End and Stop Calling them Dangerous, with Iranian choreographer Sina Saberi on his piece Narges at K3 Platform in Hamburg, with Visual Artist Nathalie Joffre for her Inconsolatas piece for Nuit Blanche 2024 in Paris, and with curator Cassandre Langlois on her curatorial program of The Way We Perform Today in Cité Internationale des Arts, to name the most recent.
In 2024, she was awarded a seven-month grant from the Institut Français to carry out research at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She was also invited as an associate artist at Dance Limerick in Ireland, and presented her works in Montpellier Danse showcases.
Tanin holds an MA in Contemporary Dance from the University of Limerick (Ireland) and a BA in Sociology from Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education (Iran).
