shahla
shahla
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Shahla works in the UK and Europe as a freelance dancer, actor and choreographer. A versatile hybrid, she is actively involved in the choreography, writing, design, editing and the production of many of the projects she is works on.
Recent choreography includes a music videos for the bands Union Sound Set and Wild Palms (directed by sitcom soldiers and James Copeman of Blackdog/RSA Films), assistant choreographer to Jonathan Lunn on his UK tour of Reading Room, (written by Anthony Minghella), assistant choreographer to Amir Hosseinpour on Castor et Pollux at the Dutch National Opera.
Shahla has toured her own work,Where The Humans Eat and recently teamed up with Isobel Cohen to co-produced Within Range for the Edinburgh Fringe 2011, eventually winning rave reviews. The show is set to tour the UK/Europe again in 2013 under the banner of coshah productions.
‘darkly funny and crushingly powerful.‘ Fest ***** watch the trailer
As a dancer she’s worked with a myriad of choreographers / companies including: Stijn Celis, Jonathan Lunn, Amir Hosseinpour, Mark Bruce, Fin Walker, Joanne Fong, Jochen Heckman, Douglas Thorpe/Mad Dogs Dance Theatre. Opera work includes productions with Terry Gilliam, David McVicar, Leah Hausman, David Alden, Pierre Audi,, Nikolaus Lehnhoff, Christof Loy, Amir Hosseinpour, Amir Nizar Zuabi and research with Ingrid Wantoch von Rekowski.
As an actor she has completed a number of short films, and continues to write various missives that she is deluded enough to think people might actually (with a bit of editing) one day read for amusement.
Ask her why she dances and she'll mumble something about being useless if she doesn’t then point directly to the Festival Deltebre Dansa (watch the documentary she was commissioned to make): two weeks of romping about the south of Spain, with friends from all over the world, not a mirror in sight, but plenty of challenge, gin, and - should it ever get a bit much - a very decent beach nearby. Excellent.
'... a tragedy almost impossible to watch in what is, overall, a stunning achievement.
It's everything physical theatre should be. '
Fest *****
'Simultaneously terrifying and beautiful. The choreography has astounding power.
What could be the most mesmerising show at the Fringe.’
Broadway Baby ****