Light has teeth
Light has teeth
Light has teeth begins with a body almost swallowed by hair. What looks like protection slowly becomes weight, costume, landscape, trap and instrument.
In this first chapter of a larger performance, vocalist and composer Sanam Tahmasebi and dancer Roshanak Morrowatian move through a dream ritual where voice, hair, sound and live projected image keep shifting roles. Live singing, electronics, cello, made percussion, contact microphones and recorded voices of Iranian women poets form a score that moves between song, noise, breath and memory.
The work does not tell one story. It follows a body trying to surface, a voice trying to stay present, and a freedom that arrives with gravity. Somewhere between dream and reality, tenderness and pressure, Light has teeth asks what begins to surface when hiding is no longer possible.
About the makers
Sanam Tahmasebi is a Tehran born, Amsterdam based vocalist, multi instrumentalist, composer, performer and interdisciplinary maker. Her work moves through voice, sound, movement, text and performance, drawing from Persian musical memory, jazz, improvisation, electroacoustic sound and collaborative stage practices. Across music theatre, dance, film, installation and live performance, she explores memory, nature, transformation, expression and resistance, often using the voice as a central force for carrying personal and shared narratives. She studied classical guitar at Tehran Art University, jazz voice at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, and jazz vocal and composition at the Prince Claus Conservatoire in Groningen. Her work has been presented at festivals and venues including Oerol, Gaudeamus, International Theater Amsterdam, Into the Great Wide Open, Le Guess Who and Uitmarkt.
For Light has teeth, she collaborates with Roshanak Morrowatian, an Iran born dancer, performer and choreographer based in the Netherlands. Roshanak holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and a Master of Arts in Dance Composition and Interpretation from Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Her work moves between performance, choreography and embodied research, exploring identity, borders, belonging, the physicality of memory and the experience of a body in diaspora.
credits
Sanam Tahmasebi – Concept, text, composition and performance
Roshanak Morrowatian – Dance and choreographic collaboration
Siavash Naghshbandi – Visual art and live camera
Femke van Emmerik – Set design
Puk Lindeman – Costume design
Renée Copraij – Outside eye
Suzy Blok, Elien van den Hoek, Radek Fedyk, Nilay Ceber, Melvin Simons and Ascon de Nijs – Artistic advice
Chun Shing Au – Lighting design
Co-produced by Explore the North
Developed within the Station Noord maker trajectory
With support from Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Special thanks to Oranjewoud Festival, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Club Guy & Roni, Grand Theatre Groningen and Hossein Tavazoni Zadeh and Gaja Caruso.
Light has teeth begins with a body almost swallowed by hair. What looks like protection slowly becomes weight, costume, landscape, trap and instrument.
In this first chapter of a larger performance, vocalist and composer Sanam Tahmasebi and dancer Roshanak Morrowatian move through a dream ritual where voice, hair, sound and live projected image keep shifting roles. Live singing, electronics, cello, made percussion, contact microphones and recorded voices of Iranian women poets form a score that moves between song, noise, breath and memory.
The work does not tell one story. It follows a body trying to surface, a voice trying to stay present, and a freedom that arrives with gravity. Somewhere between dream and reality, tenderness and pressure, Light has teeth asks what begins to surface when hiding is no longer possible.
About the makers
Sanam Tahmasebi is a Tehran born, Amsterdam based vocalist, multi instrumentalist, composer, performer and interdisciplinary maker. Her work moves through voice, sound, movement, text and performance, drawing from Persian musical memory, jazz, improvisation, electroacoustic sound and collaborative stage practices. Across music theatre, dance, film, installation and live performance, she explores memory, nature, transformation, expression and resistance, often using the voice as a central force for carrying personal and shared narratives. She studied classical guitar at Tehran Art University, jazz voice at Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, and jazz vocal and composition at the Prince Claus Conservatoire in Groningen. Her work has been presented at festivals and venues including Oerol, Gaudeamus, International Theater Amsterdam, Into the Great Wide Open, Le Guess Who and Uitmarkt.
For Light has teeth, she collaborates with Roshanak Morrowatian, an Iran born dancer, performer and choreographer based in the Netherlands. Roshanak holds a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and a Master of Arts in Dance Composition and Interpretation from Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Her work moves between performance, choreography and embodied research, exploring identity, borders, belonging, the physicality of memory and the experience of a body in diaspora.
credits
Sanam Tahmasebi – Concept, text, composition and performance
Roshanak Morrowatian – Dance and choreographic collaboration
Siavash Naghshbandi – Visual art and live camera
Femke van Emmerik – Set design
Puk Lindeman – Costume design
Renée Copraij – Outside eye
Suzy Blok, Elien van den Hoek, Radek Fedyk, Nilay Ceber, Melvin Simons and Ascon de Nijs – Artistic advice
Chun Shing Au – Lighting design
Co-produced by Explore the North
Developed within the Station Noord maker trajectory
With support from Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Special thanks to Oranjewoud Festival, Noord Nederlands Orkest, Club Guy & Roni, Grand Theatre Groningen and Hossein Tavazoni Zadeh and Gaja Caruso.
