the art collective Ful

Dance party, queer desires and memories of dance as a necessity for life. Three performers and a DJ invite you to experience the popular dance form Baba Karam. Bollywood, club music from Western Asia and a new form of traditional Persian storytelling meet in a colorful and playful performance that gives everyone the opportunity to dance for and with one another. 

Baba Karam – through Jamileh and Khordadian is a participatory video performance in the form of an euphoric dance party based on the Iranian dance Baba Karam and its use of masculine drag. Inspired by Iranian home parties, mehmooni, and movements that home dancers around the world have sent to the art collective Ful, the group has paid homage to the potential of dance to change and enable forbidden desires and identities. The focus is on memories of dance and the potential of movements danced collectively. The performance is also a tribute to the two influential and well-known American-Iranian choreographers Jamileh and Mohammad Khordadian, who have encouraged millions of people all over the world to dance. Their important work has expanded the boundaries for what dance can do and mean to people. For many, they have also been influential in framing a dance created in diaspora.

Baba Karam – through Jamileh and Khordadian had its premiere in 2021 at Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival and has then toured in Sweden, to brut in Vienna and Pombal in Portugal.

Ful is a queerfeminist art collective based in Sweden that through an intersectional understanding of the art event and/or situation, produces performances, exhibitions, podcasts and curates talks and meetings. Ful works with analysis, theory and knowledge formation through art based on queer feminist ideas, decolonial practices and postcolonial aesthetics. Ful has worked both in Sweden and internationally, among other things by their notable internationally touring and award-winning performances such as Europa Europa and Mothers’ Manifest. 
www.fulkonst.se 

Concept and idea: the art collective Ful (Nasim Aghili, Malin Holgersson, Rani Nair)
Performers: Parwin Hoseinia, Jafar The Superstar, Rani Nair and Rasuul (George Chamoun)
Voices telling dance memories: Sepideh Khodarahmi, Ardeshir Bibakabadi, Romina Houshmand, Khaled Alesmael, ZIKO Hama
Director: Nasim Aghili
Choreographer: Rani Nair together with the ensemble*
Playwright: Nasim Aghili
Jafar the Superstar’s monologue: Edwin Safari
Interviews and editing of dance memories: Malin Holgersson
Costume: Björn Karlsson and Nasim Aghili together with the ensemble
Set design: Björn Karlsson
Assistant director: Alejandra Goic
Makeup designer: Suz Åberg
Video: Nemo Stocklassa Hinders
Sound video: Agnieszka Lewalski
Light video: Jonathan Winbo
2nd assistant camera: Lukas Wigardt
Graphic design: Hanne Lindberg and Sepidar Hosseini
Producer: Puma Lagos Parra

*Thank you all party dancers for responding to our Open Call and lending us your favorite movements. Without you, no dance!

Baba Karam– through Jamileh and Khordadian is produced by Ful in collaboration with the Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival/Stora Teatern, MDT – Stockholm and Rani Nair Production with the support of the EU network Be SpectACTive, the Swedish Arts Council, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, the City of Stockholm, Region Skåne, the City of Lund and Maxi grant from Stenkrossen.

Target group: From 13 years
Duration: 80 mins
Contact: Malin Holgersson, member of the art collective Ful, +46 767 611930, info@fulkonst.se