6–7 januari 2026
Theater – Theater Rotterdam / Nastaran Razawi Khorasani
Heartbeats
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Nastaran Razawi Khorasani invites us to imagine the unimaginable in Heartbeats, a documentary performance about one simple but difficult truth: the fact that we are all mortal. She brings to the stage the story of Dian Sahertian-Boers and her struggle with an incurable disease.
About the theatre performance Heartbeats
How did Dian see her own mortality while still in the prime of her life? What did she long for? Did she see death as the end or would she live on in another way? Heartbeats is based on the conversations between Dian and Nastaran. This is a performance about how we look at death, and about the taboo that still surrounds it.
Nastaran: “In this life – shaped by ideas of progress and control – there is very little room for the unavoidable end. Is my own fear of dying perhaps a fear of the great Nothing? While looking for answers, I met Dian.”
Together with her creative team – with whom she also made the acclaimed Songs for no one and This is not a dance – Nastaran has created a documentary, physical and visual performance. Dian’s words, the light and the music follow their own heartbeat in a constantly changing space, representing a world beyond death.
This performance is spoken in Dutch. There are English surtitels.
- concept, direction and performance Nastaran Razawi Khorasani in gesprek met Dian Sahertian-Boers
- Scenography and video Peter van Til (Brother Till)
- Lighting Minna Tiikkainen
- Music Joost Maaskant
- Dramaturgy Tobias Kokkelmans
- Costumes Sara Hakkenberg
- Artistic advice Suzan Boogaerdt
- Production manager Hanne Blomme
- Website Theater Rotterdam
About Nastaran Razawi Khorasani
With her performance Songs for no one Nastaran Razawi Khorasani won the BNG Bank Theatre Award twice (2020 and 2021). This performance was selected for The Theater Festival in Flanders in 2022 and Theater der Welt in Frankfurt-Offenbach in 2023. In 2023 Nastaran was nominated for the Gieskes-Strijbis Stage Performance award. This is not a dance was nominated for the VSCD Mime/Performance Award in 2024. Nastaran’s work is performed on stage both in the Netherlands and abroad, for example at the Transform Festival in Leeds, the Theater Commons in Tokyo, the Indonesian Dance Festival in Jakarta and at the FOG Performing Arts Festival at the Triennale in Milan, Italy.
In the upcoming years, Nastaran Razawi Khorasani will be part of the makers community of Theater Rotterdam in the Netherlands.
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