O-Jak Bridge Dance & Art Festival 2022_ Featured Artist/Choreographer Parmida Ziaei

Featured Artist_ Parmida Ziaei

Parmida Ziaei is an Iranian performer, choreographer and designer currently based in Seattle. Parmida started dancing at a young age with training in classical Ballet, and from there expanded to many other dance styles including Classical Persian dance, competitive ballroom dancing, and Contemporary. Parmida often brings together the intricacy and elegance of Classical Persian dance, the freedom of contemporary movement and fierceness of Latin dance to create a unique and honest fusion of these dance style and to tell a story. In her teaching and choreography work, she is interested in exploring how each person's body embodies movement to tell a story and express emotions.

Selected Choreography: Journey

Journey is a performance, centered around the concept of immigration but through a more universal and fluid lens. Journey explores what it means to leave something behind – a loved one, a home, or our past selves. It’s about what happens when you decide to stay, and what happens when you leave. The performance aims to question our concept of immigration more globally and compassionately, and also leaves room for the audiences to simply feel the emotions though movement and visuals.

Choreographed by Parmida Ziaei

Artwork by Nakisa Dehpanah

Projections by Stephani Su

Photo by Caean Couto