Biography
Parvin Saljoughi comes from a background in visual arts (bachelor’s) and choreography (master’s), with an advanced master in research on art within socio-political contexts. Her work orbits around the complexities of the body, its vulnerabilities, its politics, its invisibilities. Displacement, suppressed narratives, and postcolonial theory are deeply intertwined with her lived experience.
She has been a scholar at IF Berlin and has collaborated with platforms such as Flash Art, Live Works, Bâtard, and Tashweesh. She has also participated in residencies at PACT Zollverein, Mousonturm, KWP, Buda, KAAP, Beursschouwburg, workspace Brussels, and Centrale Fies. Her works Make sense who may, I switch off and Temporarily closed premiered at Beursschouwburg, where a new piece, Feral Reverie, will debut in February 2026. She has worked with artists including Wen Hui, Serafine1369, Hooman Sharifi, Claudia Castellucci, among others. In 2021, she interned with Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods.
Parvin started in Tehran, but now lives in Brussels, an alien in more ways than one.
In residentie Feral Reverie
01.10.2025 – 01.10.2025
Feral Reverie is a dreamlike choreography that treats wildness not as metaphor but as insubordination. The piece cracks open a sci-fi ruin where nothing holds, not even the choreography itself. It drifts between digital glitch and dirt, between fiction and reality, summoning a space that is unstable, fluid, feral.
On stage, three performers move through glitch, breakdown, and evasion; they refuse repair, refuse the blueprint, and build from ash. Choreography becomes soft sabotage: a code corrupted, a glitch with intent, a language of survival written in contact, distortion, collapse, refusal. Because collapse, in this world, is the only ground that still tells the truth.
The piece leaves us with a provocation, not a comfort: What remains when wildness is crushed and desire is shackled by power?