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around the world more than 130000000 people us. we of mine because no one should have to make up your own mind dw, may, for mine's. the dancing is a very, very big part of my life. it's. uh it is my passion, a jeremy would have had a dancing band is kind of like, i don't know, cutting one of your fingers off in a way to but someone is holding you back from doing something in the

islamic republic of a ron. dancing is banned, many people still do it, and after they've videos as a form of protest, but you're in for more freedom, especially women whose lives have drastically changed for the worse since the rainy and revolution. 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. really, as i'm all in the or is 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 down through the shots spun at the berlin state ballet. she was born in good shape book, sweden, and has been dancing all her life 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 and you're wrong. they have to be forced to wear a headscarf or he job. um, and this has been quite normal for me were 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 in

to run. 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 arms around in 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 your trying to to have a phone call. so but now she has to, we has

a performance from the world renowned choreographer peanut bose stravinsky's the rise of spring. the she missed the train every day practice until its perfect classical dance as demanding physical work. 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 valley rena, is not what it seems. places of valerie in us. it's a lot of this. a lot of this exact and or yes, the toes. how, how's your toes to do? do valerie as aids?

do they like of course the best thing about food is for sure. if they seen the blacks one movie and then like, is it true about the, the eat like a piece of fruits or like a great fruit in the morning and like, no, no, it's not kind of skill valet 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 pain.

the show is oliver. oh, yes. it's fine. it's just very tired. it's the who the whole lower legs. 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 the wrong 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 color for 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 cut a day ahead. goes, went to school together with boys. they was cinemas and alcohol was not yet found. 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. a toyota corolla remaining is that the drastic changes led her to leave the country in 1987 to emigrate to sweden. 5, i guess. so when we came on, 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 don 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 i when i was like a little girl in school and practicing dance. and 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 the light skin you know. and just like seeing like a group of the same girls, you know how much than me, she was a hold of a 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 that 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 do, 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 plague are traumatizing, these children and dreams and being crushed, you know, a just a few hours later vivian, the head, back to the sconce, or the bit in state opera as a professional, done. so she performs up to 14 shows a month with a bill and state by now the focus is on guessing the timing perfect. getting every move precisely rise ahead of tonight's performance. the

. busy the . busy 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 young as the so 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. yeah. um 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 incidents are inspiring me. i wanna message people, none of your audience to, for them to understand that or how terrible this is,

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