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Scaled Pain

  • AckerStadtPalast 169 Ackerstraße Berlin, BE, 10115 Germany (map)
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Photos: Bahador Feiz

Scaled Pain is an inward journey through three bodies exploring contact, weight, and distance. Pain emerges in layers—never forgotten, always transforming.

Performed between a rural house in northern Iran and Berlin, bodies appear fragmented, voices delayed, and touch becomes real yet untouchable.

Contact Improvisation here is more than movement—it’s listening, presence, and confronting absence. Pain arises not from absence, but from incomplete presence and unfinished touch.

A hybrid experience of closeness, distance, and the layered nature of human connection.


Director: Roham Amirifar

Performers (Live in Iran):
Roham Amirifar, Khorshid Sheikhansari, Rana Shahbazi

Music/sound design (Live in Berlin): Niki Yaghmaee

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Photos: Bahador Feiz

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