Modjgan Hashemian

Modjgan Hashemian has been active and well-connected as a choreographer in Berlin and internationally for many years. The central themes of her artistic practice include fragile communication and the search for common ground for understanding, despite language barriers. In addition to her own dance pieces, she works with Nurkan Erpulat in the field of spoken and musical theatre. She works at the Maxim Gorki Theater and makes guest appearances at the Theater Thikwa, the German National Theatre in Weimar, the National Theatre in Baghdad, Iraq, the Theater Regensburg, the Staatsoperette Dresden, as well as with the Guerilla Architects and the I Collective. Hashemian has also served as a mentor at the Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz Berlin (HZT), a guest lecturer at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), and has been a jury member on several occasions for the Berlin Senate Administration, Draußenstadt and the Tanztreffen der Jugend.