24 Questions for Hooman
- 24 Questions for Hooman
24 Questions for Hooman
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1. What is your name?
Hooman Sharifi.
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2. What is your date of birth?
13 February 1973.
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3. What is your city of birth?
Tehran.
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4. What is your country of origin?
Iran.
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5. What is your nationality?
Norwegian.
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6. Where do you live now?
Oslo.
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7. When did you start dancing?
When I was 16.
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8. When will you stop dancing?
I don't know.
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9. When did you start choreographing?
Around 20 or 21.
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10. When will you stop choreographing?
When I am empty.
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11. What really matters to you, right now, at this moment?
Ways of surviving the exhaustion.
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12. What force, or power, do you encounter in choreography?
Ambitions.
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13. What force, or power, do you encounter in dancing?
The challenge of staying focused on the subject instead of dancing.
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14. Why did you have to choreograph a solo for yourself?
There is always good in going back to yourself and putting yourself in the middle of it.
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15. What is language for you?
Language is: ways (or systems) of talking or listening.
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16. What is movement for you?
This is a very difficult or a very complex question. Anyway, movement is revolution. A revolution where the goal is only to adjust positions for a short moment. Constantly falling.
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17. How do you relate to habit?
Habit must be broken. [End Page 46]
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18. How do you relate to novelty?
Does not exist.
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19. Where do you think the future lives?
In my action done now.
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20. What does the body know?
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21. What does the body not know?
I do not know. I am not so busy with body in this way. I like flesh, blood, organs, bones, and so on.
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22. What do you want to do artistically in the next five years?
Hopefully I am still active and creating movement and not dance, theatre, photo, video, or installation.
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23. What is the most pressing political issue for you at the moment?
How to stay gray. Not black or white and never maybe. Always gray and the gradations within gray.
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24. Please add a paragraph of text, written by you, that you think makes sense to be published now, in English, in this journal.
These are small fragments of texts that I have written for Impure Company's artistic objective. [The Impure Company performance group was established by Sharifi in 2000.]
I don't differ between what I am, and what I do.
No limits exist except the limits that exist within me.
There are no new forms. There is nothing new, definitely not us.
No illusions.
We will try to meet our audience with sincerity on an equal level. Which is almost impossible since we know what is going to happen, and you don't. We have to pretend since we are performing.
I still mean it is important to work on equality, sincerity, and being direct. We all have our selfish reasons, so do I.
It is ok to be afraid.
No totality.
Anyway we will try our best, and if it's not good enough for you, maybe next time.
—Hooman Sharifi [End Page 47]
