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Roza Moshtaghi is a Tehran-born artist and choreographer based in Oslo. Her creations are often situated within the performing arts field as a choreographer/dancer and performer. Her works deal with the unexplained narratives of desire generated in the process of adapting or reacting to systems/structures. The ordinary, or rather what we have forced inside the uniform of the ordinary, is Roza's playground. She looks for possibilities to hypothesize "the hidden" by digging into the ordinary as a silent landscape.
Roza’s choreographies and scenographic elements are often characterized as representations of abstract, almost sculptural forms of movement that resemble both ordinary but obscure sceneries. Her work is often performed in public spaces and combined with sculptures that are activated through movement performance and/or action.
The choreography is followed by plethoric change of sceneries but with minimalist movements, which enhances a slow tension building with sudden narrative dismantling. Moshtaghi’s choreography deconstructs everyday life movements through overexaggerated yet abstract gestures that produce discomfort and fail to adapt to human normative patterns.
In 2025 "Songs of Chaos" has received a nomination for the Hedda prize for “best dance production”
Her most recent projects have been presented in Theaters, museums, galleries, festivals, and public spaces .
are SURVIVE commissioned by Danish Danseteater, Oil Dino Du (2025), Songs of Chaos (2024), Sofies Room-commissioned by Munch Museum Oslo (2024), BUD- commissioned by The Norwegian national company of contemporary dance (2022), kinShips(2021), LIMBO(2021), HOOP(2020), Bouncing Narratives (2019), and Only Forever(2018).
Roza´s work is supported by Fri scenekunst–kunstnerskap from Arts and Culture Norway.
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