About Me

Alireza Mirmohammadi is an Iranian dancer, choreographer and director. He was born on 8th of April 1986 in Tehran, Iran . He has his bachelor’s degree in drama from Art university of Tehran. During these years from 2005 till present he attended in so many workshops such as the one with Christina Ciupke, Jule Flier, Kaya Katodziejczyk, Gilles Polet, Bara Sigfusdottir, Katerina Bakatsaki, Attila Pesyani, Mehdi Farajpoor, Mohammad Abbasi and Atefe Tehrani. At first they attended in Fadjr theatre festival and after that they performed it for a month in Tehran central theatre hall.
He has experiences in different fields of art all related to drama.
As a performer he started his activities by acting in different collegiate and interactive performances
in various Urban spaces together with Iranian director Mehdi Faradjpour from 2005 to 2009. Then he continued performing with the renowned iranian choreographer, Atefeh Tehrani in her dance/ theatre project ‘Read’.
As a director he started his work in some collegiate projects and after that he had his strong step with ‘Faust’, a dance/theatre project in 2011. Three months later he directed another project in Tehran Art university.Then he led the cast of dancers for a movie called ‘I want to’ by renowned Iranian director Bahman Farmanara in 2013.
in 2016 he made the dance film ‘nature exploration’ in different parts of his homelands.
In 2017 Alireza felt the lack of a community in which the dancer in all fields can find each other so he
founded IPAC(Iranian Performing Arts Community). The community has now 300 members. At the
same time he was the local partner for the organisation of IETM(International
network for contemporary performing arts)caravan meeting in Tehran.
On June 2017 he was the director advisor of a short film’ the home which I loved’ written and
directed by Maryam Ghiasi.
From 2017 till now he works with Bára Sigfusdóttir, Icelandic/Belgian based choreographer, in her very
last art piece ‘being’. The team is currently on a tour to many countries such as Belgium, Germany, France,
Netherlands, Iceland and they have so many other countries to join. Before this project Alireza had a
cooperation with Bára in her movement research.
In the last months of 2018 he was the director advisor of a short film”stain” by Maryam Ghiasi.
These days he is working on his own new solo project “Mourning” as dancer and choreographer for which he is now on the residency at Workspacebrussels on January 2019 and just after that he moves to Essen, Germany for his second residency at “PACT” on February 2019.

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