Sorour Darabi

Sorour Darabi is an Iranian trans artist based in France since 2013, living and working between Paris & Berlin.

Working actively in Iran, he was a part of the underground organisation ICCD, whose festival Untimely (Tehran) hosted his work before his departure for France. During studies at the CCN de Montpellier, he created the solo Subject to Change, a performance upon time and one’s cohabitation with an environment. In 2016, he created Farci.e, a solo dealing in notions of language, gender identity and sexuality. In 2018, he created Savušun and in 2021 Mowgli and Natural Drama. He is recently working on his first group piece Mille et Une Nuits which will be premiered in Montpellier Danse Festival 2024.

Mille et Une Nuits is a project that begins on the occasion of a group show he created during his residency and Palais de Tokyo in November 2022, From the Throat to the Dawn. This piece has been shown recently in Berlin at Trauma Bar und Kino in January 2023.

Photo by Camille Blake