Nastaran Razawi Khorasani is an artist based in Rotterdam. She is as a performance maker and performer and has presented work at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, among other venues. In recognition of her remarkable practice, she won the Gouden Krekel award for the most impressive stage performance of the year at the Nederlands Theater Festival 2014, in 2020 she was nominated for the award for dance for young audiences at the Nederlandse Dansdagen and in 2023 she was nominated for the Gieskes-Strijbis Podium Prize.
Razawi Khorasani relocated to the Netherlands from Iran as a child refugee. Songs for no one, staged for the first time in Japan at this festival, is a performance born from phone conversations with children who live in the artist’s home country of Iran. Answering questions asked in Farsi, invisible children on the other side of the receiver talk about their favorite games and music, their school life and family, and other banal details about their life. The children imaginatively speak of their future, despite the constraints on their freedom imposed by the dictatorship. Razawi Khorasani responds with lyrics and music she has written herself. The performance is sure to become a source of empowerment for the future, rousing people’s imagination and sense of freedom.