Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam
Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam/ People call him an exceptional phenomena, a dancer who creates music with his mouvements and who is technically so good that he does not need any stage decoration nor music when performing, nothing but him and his dance, he is completely self sufficient. Shahrokh is based and has been trained in Paris, a graduate in History of Art and Theatre from the University of Paris 8. He is choreographer, actor, and director. He is the founder and artistic director of Nakissa Art Company.
He has now become one of the most successful and well-known international artists, with his wide talents in acting and dancing.
Every year Shahrokh and his Company Nakissa perform in various countries around the world and attend international Festivals or events, such as the Internaitonal Dance Festival in Boulder Colorado, Festival Meridas, Festival d'Asturias Festival de Chartres, Rotterdam, Rome, La haye, the Tirgan festival in Toronto etc.
His mixed background, meaning born and raised in Iran, spending his youth in Paris and being trained in various styles of dances, has earned him a unique type of dance by creating a fusion of different kinds of dances. His choreographies, usually based on Persian classical music bring Persian myths, poetry, and dance together to create an atmosphere of magical quality.
His past experience in the area of dance include “Seven Pavilions of Love”, “Sohrab and Gordafarid”, and “Khosrow and Shirin”, and others, In his Dance-Mythologic (a collection of
Dances based on Persian mythology) piece, Shahrokh is a story teller translating the lines from thousands of years ago into movements familiar to today’s audience all over the world. In Moshkin Ghalam’s view, movement is to convey a message; he does not believe in using movement for the sake of movement. His extensive training in world dances, along with his open-mindedness, allows him to take all that he feels necessary from other cultures, add to it, or sometimes re-invent it each time in a new context for a different purpose.
”I came to realize the importance of my roots, my heritage, my being Iranian after I left Iran". It happened over the course of my six-year collaboration with Ariane Mnouchkine, who reminded us that every single one of us, who came from all over the world, had something to contribute to this magical world of theatre. Shahrokh likes to travel, to see the world, to explore other cultures and to learn to appreciate their values. Nevertheless He has hold on to who he was, he says:" I turned to our myths, our legends, our great epic “Shahnameh” and tried to learn as much as I could. Glancing at “Omar Khayam”, strolling through any pavilion in his “Seven Pavillions of Love” and his latest creation "Dance Variations on Persian themes" ,one notices dance elements from all around the world, skillfully put together to create a piece of work that is very much Iranian, and more so original.
Shahrokh draws inspiration from diverse Eastern traditions to create a unique style of dance. Persian, Kurdish, Soufi and Indian influences blend with a contemporary training in both dance and theatre.
He is amazing, powerful and moving, his facial expressions when performing are very well Matched with his movements.
In 2002 the Royal Opera House of Covent Garden invited him for his “Seven pavillion Ballet” based on the works of Great Persian Poet Nezami.
"Dance Varations on Persian themes"created in 2007 is his last work which is a collection of his best choreographies performed with Karine Gonzales the major dancer of his company. Shahrokh has a unique style, a poetic way of expressing himself and his grace is as such that he can dance without music, nor any stage decoration, and still be stunning.
Shahrokh uses Persian poetry as his music, his movements are remarkable and technically powerful
He is simply inspirational and absolutely stunning.
His “Omar Khayyam” Ballet inspired by the Quatrains of 12 century Persian poet Omar Khayam has been preformed in Paris, London, Stockholm, NewYork and Los Angeles, The “Mythological Danses” inspired by the three love stories (Khosrow and Shirin , Bahram and Dorsatti , Sohrab and Gordafarid)is also a very successful series of Persian dances which has been preformed in Europe and North America
several times.
As an actor, he appeared on stage for six years with the THEATRE DU SOLEIL, under the direction of Ariane Mnouchkine,and had major parts in plays such as “Tartuffe”, “la Ville Parjure” and “Les Atrides «
His theatre performances such as “Twelfth Night” of Sheakspear with the Terrain Vague Company , “Romeo and Juliette” directed by Lionnel Briands. “Dionysos, the Baccantes”of Euripide directed by Usevio Lazaro, “Soldier Tale” of Strawinsky in theatre Athenée directed by Antoine Campo. “Tramway named Desire” of Tenesee William directed by Phillip Adrian. “abduction in the Serai” of Mozart directed by Jérome Deschamps.
He has played and directed plays in Persian such as: Zohreh va Manouchehr by Iraj Mirza Mardha va cheez from Makki
“Kafane Siah” a play inspired by MirzadeEshghi the early 20th century Iranian poet Has been presented in the USA, Canada, and different European countries. Since 2004 he has been an official member of La Comédie Française one of the most prestigious theatre companies in Europe and has taken part in plays
Such as;
• Pedro et le commandeur, Felix Lope de Vega • Molière / Lully, Molière, m.e.s Jean-Marie Villégier • La Maison des morts, Philippe Minyana, m.e.s Robert Cantarella, Yerma le Bonheur, Cyrano de Bergerac and others all played in French
Shahrokh has even been selected for the role of Pacha in the opera "abduction of the serail" of Mozart in the ex en province Festival in France .
He has also inherited a talent in persian Caligraphy from his great grand father and last but not least Shahrokh is a very good photographer.