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Artist Series: Performance sessions with Omid Kheirabadi

Artist in residency Omid Kheirabadi will guide a series of performance sessions with a set group.

Omid is an Iranian performance artist who works between theatre, movement, and storytelling. He calls these meetings performance sessions: something between a workshop, a get-together, and a rehearsal for a performance that doesn't exist yet. He doesn't bring a script. What we make comes from whoever is in the room.

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"You don't need any experience with theatre. Curiosity is enough."

Image of Omid sitting down, crossed legged, on a theatre stage, screaming into a megaphone with stickers on it

About the residency

We meet every Sunday to move, play, and make things. It's a way of getting to know each other that doesn't rely only on talking. The sessions make room for listening and for saying things out loud, and for the moment when someone says a line or moves in a way they didn't plan. That is when everyone in the room becomes a performer. You don't need any experience with theatre. Curiosity is enough.

The group has breakfast together, starting off slowly without rushing.

An introductory session took place on October 4, if you joined this, please sign-up again to confirm your attendance throughout the series. If not, you are still welcome to join and continue with the program together with everyone.

Weekly sessions: November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 and December 6, 13, 20, 2026, 10:00 to 17:00
Last session before the sharing: 10 Jan 2027, 10:00 to 17:00
Public sharing: 17 Jan 2027

About Omid
Omid Kheirabadi grew up in Tehran and has lived in Rotterdam for six years. He is an artist working with performance, film, and the spaces we live in. His first real theatre experience came during his military service, when he made a piece together with his fellow soldiers. He never studied theatre or writing; he just learned by doing. Now he makes theatre pieces and performances where the line between performer and audience breaks, and everyone in the room is welcome to join and help build the stories. He has worked this way with groups in Rotterdam, The Hague, Maastricht, Istanbul, and Belfast, and shown work at festivals in Delft and Utrecht.

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