Our body is a spectrum of paradoxes, moving from one to another: from reality to imagination, from wrath to happiness , from loneliness to communicating ,and from motion to stillness, experiencing transformation at all times. At this juncture, where we are inevitably faced with fast developments, our body is always being transformed and can no longer stay stable, changing to adapt to the fast wild flow.

Azi Dahaka inspired by a symbolic Iranian myth about a Persian king who transforms into a three-headed monster due to his social context, witnessing the growth of two blood-thirsty snakes from his shoulders. He himself has no control over this transformation that helps him adapt to the situation.

We believe the underlying concept of this myth still lives in us in a way that every event surrounding us, from internal mood changes and a minuscule virus to a massive explosion, changes us into different forms, stealing from us stability and stillness, influencing our humane characteristics. This dismantles not only our body but also our spirit, rendering both listless and contracted, and finally shape shifts us into an unknown being, the one which is the result of unwanted transformations.

In this performance, we portray our personal experiences about Love and Pleasure, Pain and Suffering, through our bodies. We've placed ourselves inside a net; fragile and delicate yet limiting, this net separates our bodies from the outside world, a limitation that might as well be broken at any moment. When one fully experiences a sense of utter "completion" in a relationship, they start feeling like being inside a safe bubble, a sensation similar to what our skin makes us feel by holding all of our organs. The movements and sounds, in this performance, all grow from smaller to larger, probably exactly the same way our feelings and presence grows in a relationship and moves us from the deepest end of our bodies, somewhere beneath our skin.

In that moment when the consciousness of day has long left you and the sound sleep has been shattered, the moment does extend and it keeps stretching within you into a dark night; until your awakening arrives and falls on its knees, facing a long long day.

This piece inspired by the fleeting but universal experience of the body’s intermediate space between dreaming and waking. Through a sensor-embedded metallic surface, it will explore the body and its sonic-material potential for affect. This surface, will pick up the sound, force, and surface area of the dancers’ body against the plate with embedded contact microphones, pressure sensors, and touch capacitors.