Alireza Mirmohammadi is an Iranian contemporary dancer and choreographer based in Marseille. He holds a bachelor’s degree in drama from Tehran University of Art in 2011.
From 2008 to 2011, he had some collaborations with other Iranian artists such as Mehdi Farajpour in some interactive performances and Atefeh Tehrani in her physical theatre project Read. Thereafter, Alireza participated in other projects before creating his dance project based on Goethe’s famous play Faust.
Mirmohammadi was the dance instructor in a long narrative movie directed by Bahman Farmanara, one of the most renowned filmmakers in Iran. Afterward, he created Nature Exploration, a dance film in 2016.
From 2015 to 2018, he had two collaborations with Iranian filmmaker and video artist, Maryam Ghiasi, as the director’s advisor in her short films The Home Which I Loved and Stain.
In 2016, Alireza cooperated with IETM to arrange a meeting between IETM members and the Iranian performing art community.
In 2017, Mirmohammadi founded IPAC, the Iranian Performing Arts Community, which consisted of 350 members including many artists who were active in the realm of performing art. Alireza organized eleven workshops in the field of dance for the IPAC’s members during one year.
He was a performer in collaboration with the GRIP dance company based in Gent from 2017 to 2019 where he worked with Icelandic dancer and choreographer, Bara Sigfusdottir on her art piece being. During that collaboration, Alireza had many residencies and performances in Iran, Belgium, Turkey, Germany, France, The Netherlands, and Iceland.
His last solo project is Lullaby in which he perused the concept of mourning and its effect on the body and movement for which he had some residencies at Workspacebrussels, PACT Zollverein, and the Camargo Foundation. Lullaby will have its two-night Belgian Premiere at Charleroi Danse on March 2024.
In 2023, Alireza Mirmohammadi is working on his new project Mangle in cooperation with visual artist, Maryam Ghiasi, at the Camargo Foundation and will continue his rehearsal in January 2024 at PACT Zollverein.