Armin Hokmi: Of the Heart

In the organizer's words:

A dance from the heart. Gesture by gesture, dancer Katherina Jitlatda Horup Solvang creates sharp angles, broken lines and sudden breaks. The precision is extreme, almost dizzying. The rhythmic-electronic music by Tehran-based musicians Ehsan & HEICH creates the moment when a body wants to move and dance, even before it knows what form this movement will take. Of the Heart is a fleeting encounter between dancer and dance. A finely crafted solo by choreographer Armin Hokmi, who was already seen at tanzhaus with Shiraz in October 2025 and continues his sensitive line with Of the Heart.
Between folkloristic traces and traditional echoes, Armin Hokmi searches for a movement vocabulary that defies clear interpretation. As a study of an elusive struggle with music, Of the Heart begins and unfolds as a physical act. Something that does not impose itself, but offers itself.

"Sequences [...] intensify and enrich each other
in high graphic stringency, while
futurism with folklore and universalism.
universalism. They show in
perfection how minimalism can look today
can look today and draw the picture
of an intimate cycle through which
lines and forms from the history of dance
dance history, including a
hint of Nijinska and expressionism" (Thomas Hahn - tanz, October 25)

"Nothing is left to chance, neither the bends of the knees, nor the transitions that break with the music by ehsan & HEiCH, nor the depth of the pliés. And yet, everything seems to emerge, surface, slide beyond all expectation. It is a pure study of gesture, as we love them, where the choreographer enjoys exploring all the possibilities provoked by a constraint: that of the fold." [1] Cult.news

[1] "Nothing is left to chance, neither the bending of the knees, nor the transitions that break with the music of ehsan & HEiCH, nor the depth of the pliés. And yet everything seems to emerge, to emerge, to glide beyond all expectations. It is a pure study of gesture, as we love it, in which the choreographer takes pleasure in exploring all the possibilities that a restriction entails: that of folding." Cult.news

Armin Hokmi (Oslo / Berlin) works in the field of dance and choreography. His artistic career began in 2009 as a performer in independent theater in Iran. He later continued his education and work abroad, gaining experience in various performative practices and media. He holds a B.A. in Acting from the Norwegian Theatre Academy (2015 - 2018) and completed the M.A. program Solo / Dance / Authorship at HZT Berlin (2019 - 2021). Armin Hokmi is an associated artist at Montpellier Danse for the period 2024 - 2026. With passion and precision, Armin Hokmi develops movement languages in his choreographic work that oscillate between the familiar and the strange - horizons in which different reference systems meet, contrast and transform.

Duration: 35 min.