Bahoon

> BAHOON is a ritual-based physical performance created and performed by an all-women ensemble in Tehran. The piece explores cycles of female grief, transformation, fertility, and memory using rhythm, silence, and body-based storytelling. It draws from traditional Iranian ceremonies such as Ta’zieh and Zoorkhaneh and is performed on a circular wooden stage, where the women act as both drummers and vessels of ritual.

BAHOON was developed in a heavily censored artistic climate, and the act of performing became itself a resistance. It is non-verbal, movement-based, and deeply intimate. The performance invites the audience into a poetic space of mourning, birth, and rebirth.