this is between the 2 countries. in nearly 5 years, the states department says he emphasized the need to keep communication channels open to diffuse tensions. don't forget, you can always get dw news on the go. just download the apps on google play off from the apple app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world. as well as push notifications for any breaking news. that's your news. this next sports live features anywhere near enough by lead on. so who wants to support the women testing? homeland staging from one use to the top of the main guardians of truth. my name's jumped into and i have paid almost every price of being enjoying this in a country like to tease taking on the powers that be they risk every thing

john don't r s activists, journalist and politicians living and anxiety too much on my shoulders. but i have to hold this way because i'm responsible for the future follow country for the people who are behind the bus for the english, people need to know what is happening there in our series guardians of truth watch now on youtube dw documentary, the samsung is a very, very big part of my life. it's that it is my passion jeremy would have had a dancing van is kind of like, i don't know,

cutting one of your fingers off in a way to that someone is holding you back from doing something in the islamic republic of a ron. dancing is banned, many people still do it and opposite the videos as a form of protest. the un for more freedom, especially women whose lives have drastically changed for the worse since the rainy and revenue. so now many are protesting the secrecy at home and abroad. there's so much things i can say with that with, with my art for him and to touch people and to inform people the, the ability i have to actually have a voice here and to be dancing on the stage freely available in the

a it in a saw kind of our is on their way to rehearsals at the door to open the gym and opera. the 28 year old as a dancer at the shots, but at the berlin state ballet. she was born in good shape book, sweden, and has been dancing. oh, how nice. as a teenager, she then studied at various national ballets across here and parents come from iran, but she only ever visited the country as a baby. now she lives the life of a professional battery. i mean, i've always been surrounded with knowing how women are being oppressed in you're wrong, they have to be forced to wear a head scarf or a huge job. um, and this has been quite normal for me like growing up

and i've never thought too much about it. but that changed when protests began any wrong. now she's in touch with the children starting school into iran. i just realized how i feel so distant from this country um the people and how unfair it is to, to be around in girl like any or iranian girl in iran. but living here and to have the privileges i do have here, which they wish to have there. i've had contact with this girl. now, since the pandemic and i said i wanted to actually travel during these years to to go there and to maybe give them trespass and give them workshop to teach them and maybe have a collaboration she's actually answering and we're trying to to have

a phone call say but now she has to rehearse a performance from the world renowned choreographer peanut bose stravinsky's the rise of spring. the that she missed the train every day practice until its perfect classical dance as demanding physical works. it's a lot of care. and within this profession, it's a full day job. even if the end product is made to look so easy, the life of the belly rena is not what it seems. places of valerie in us. it's a lot of this. a lot of. yeah,

this exact and or yes, the toes. how? how's your toes do? do valerie knows 8 bags. of course the best thing about food is for sure. if they seeing the blacks one movie and then like, is it true that they can only eat like a piece of fruits or like a great fruit in the morning and like no, no, it's not. pasco, valley and modern dance has similarities, but also a lot of differences is different muscles you work with so badly it's you have to be kind of more higher on your hips and you're like funny, straight and then a and it's lights or i would say, and then lot of nice can sometimes the most of the time as being more heavier and you have to be more grounded and rounded into the floor. and,

and this also brings different muscles and different paint. so if i, if oliver, yes, it's fine. it's just very tired. yeah. yeah. the who in the meantime, vivian is found time for passion projects. in 2022. she really has to own pace together with other ensemble dances and young talents. the title of it is in these books that which means this too shall pulse. it's a persian adage describing the federal nature of life and the human condition. the project focused on the lives of women in iran before and after the revolution. the

piece was very inspired or of the time of the 7 days. so i did use kind of this colorful costumes and music from yvonne in rock artists. from that time, women were afraid they were liberated back then women in iran didn't have to kind of they ahead goals went to school together with boys. they was cinemas and alcohol was not yet been that all changed in 1979 with the writing and revolution. religious leaders seized power and women lost most of their individual freedom. vivian's mother personally experienced this transition of power to i have filled out a whole lot. khomeini's us them all the drastic changes led her to leave the country in 1987 and to emigrate to sweden. 5, i guess nobody came um if we wanted to speak up,

they could send us to prison for that to click it in but they arrested so many people. my father was so frightened and i was so active, so therefore he told me like you better leave the country to. hi, vivian tells her about the done school into iran. there are a lot of families that like secretly send their kids to this. her school to like to, to practice dance and music. and i mean i, i'm looking really up to her that she's able to do this for children there, you know, and super risky. what she does and, and she's willing to do this tomorrow she aims to cool the done school. well, i see a lot of just children that look like me, like it just reminds me of my childhood. you know, like when i was like

a little girl in school and practicing and then send cuz you know, i have pictures like when i, when i was in school and i was the only, you know, dark hair girl with like the darker skin and all everyone else was more like blown than light skin, you know, and just like seeing like a group of the same girls you know, how much in michigan is that? hold on. okay. like, like how i was when i was young, you know, i just, i get really emotional, actually seeing this. it reminds me of my childhood, but also to see that you know, there's so many children in a wrong, but we have to do the same thing like having the freedom and just having like, enjoy this is what i see like joy in their faces that into that they're able to, you know, enjoy their childhood is like, have the chest to practice what they like to,

to like and be happy. this is what a time which should be. it shouldn't be just a good memories. and i feel like there's so much going on in the country that are traumatizing. these children and stream is being crushed. you know, just a few hours later vivian, the head, back to the stats or the bit in state opera as a professional done. so she performs up to 14 shows a month with a bill and state ballet. now the focus is on guessing the timing perfect. getting every move precisely rise ahead of tonight's performance. the

following day vivian is on home tough. the rehearsal space of the door to old ha!

it's almost time for her, cool, with the dawn school in to run. but then plans change. so out of you and as ease. meanwhile, i am cooper. she sadly canceled the interview due to security reasons. i don't wanna pressure into anything that she doesn't feel safe with and but of course it's disappointing that she even has to feel like this in the wrong that people are still scared and still feeling that they could lose everything. so just by a phone call, i would try to contact her by myself here, and try to still keep in touch with her. i can't deny the feeling that i have and look away from what's happening in the wrong and sadly enough these in. so there are inspiring me i wanna message people, none of your audience to,

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