Stone, ashes and hasrat

Stone, ashes and hasrat focuses on how women's bodies have been targeted as a source of inspiration as well as a means to serve the most obnoxious desires in history. Under the pretext of respecting the morals, preserving the rituals and resuscitating the tradition; Iran, India and North Africa are three regions that still practice torture and mutilation of women's bodies. In Iran, stoning of women prisoners who are allegedly corrupt has entered into the legal codification of the state; likewise the genital mutilationof young girls in North Africa is considered as a societal ritual and Sati in India still is honored by some as a means of loyalty to the community and servitude to one's own tradition. These three different traditions have targeted woman's body as the manifestation of their own understanding of justice, loyalty and morality. Unfortunately, even in todays modern society and free worldthe degradation of women's bodies continues with different goals and more complicated manner(woman trafficking, cosmetic surgery,rigth for abortion). This project intends to portraythe commonality of torture amongthese three traditions: how the woman's body is degraded throughwhat is intended as glorification. Although, the subject of this dance (Violence against women's bodies) carried a strong social and political message, the choreography of this dance is based on three love stories, and the women are victims of love.
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• stone
• ashes
• hasrat
• khorshid
• khanoom
• dance