Oriantheatre Dance Company

Oriantheatre Dance Company A Contemporary Dance & Physical Theater Company Indian culture calls it MAYA. My job is to re-animate that screen.

"My whole work is about the Life and this strange illusion of feeling alive in an absolutely illusionary world where the border in between real and unreal is almost non-existent. A screen that is set up just in front of our eyes on which our own images are being projected and that makes us feel alive. You call it Dance, Theatre, Performance or whatever". Mehdi Farajpour


The word ORIAN, in Persia

n language, refers to the notion of nudity which is not only related to the Body, but to the purity too, thus to the Truth. ORIANTHEATRE is a French Performing Art’s company founded by Mehdi Farajpour in 2011. The main aim of the company is to build up a new performing language that stands on the border of different art forms such as dance & theatre; video, sound and installation art. Le sens du mot persan ORIAN se réfère à la nudité, à la pureté qui, par extension, renvoie à la notion de réalité. ORIANTHEATRE est une compagnie indépendante interdisciplinaire fondée par Mehdi Farajpour en 2011 en France. S'appuyant sur un réseau international, elle rassemble des artistes des cultures différentes oeuvrant dans les domaines du théâtre, de la danse, de la musique, de performance et multimedia...
Si elle sollicite la danse comme base à ses créations, elle est en recherche permante de nouvelles formes d'expression corporelle, mêlant diverses disciplines artistiques.

Join us this summer for Paris Summer Academy with a diverse and remarkable group of artists around dance to share, creat...
11/04/2026

Join us this summer for Paris Summer Academy with a diverse and remarkable group of artists around dance to share, create, brainstorm, learn and more altogether.

Application link: https://www.oriantheatre.com/parissummeracademy

Team and research fields:
Morgan Nardi (Performance and Dance)
Fiona Witherell (Company’s Repertory)
Federica Porello (Contemporary Dance)
Elisabetta Lauro (Contemporary Dance)
Melissa Younker (Company’s Method / Empty Body)
Anatoli Vlassov (Talking Dance / Phonesia)
And a first time trying of a Collective Video Dance Lab.

16/01/2026

Questioning Dance in a Dance performance? ,)

Video from Repertory Archive 2013-2017
STOP SPOT by Mehdi Farajpour

With Gwen Sampé, Neus Canalias Avila, Antonio Izquierdo Martinez

08/01/2026

ORIANTHEATRE dance Company, likewise many other independent Performing Arts companies, despite the harsh political and financial situation, continue to exist as a tool of resistance for justice. In 2026, we will be touring with one of our political performances called META (a dance-installatio...

A Paradise in the making
27/10/2025

A Paradise in the making

Despite the bitterness of the world nowadays, KA-F-KA is going on stage again after 9 years since its creation and havin...
11/06/2025

Despite the bitterness of the world nowadays, KA-F-KA is going on stage again after 9 years since its creation and having toured worldwide. This time in Georgia, 14 July 2025 at the Movement and Physical Theatre Festival.

11/06/2025
Job description:•Development of new and existing partnerships•EU Grant applications•Research for and Securing Funding•To...
14/04/2025

Job description:
•Development of new and existing partnerships
•EU Grant applications
•Research for and Securing Funding
•Tour management

Remote work, Commission based. Knowledge of French administration/ language a plus, but not a necessity.

Send CV and short letter of motivation to: [email protected]

Photos from the dress rehearsal of the company’s AI based performance (SoundGraphy) that went on the stage of a beautifu...
27/12/2024

Photos from the dress rehearsal of the company’s AI based performance (SoundGraphy) that went on the stage of a beautiful theatre in Tampere (Finland). We would like to say a warm MERCI BEAUCOUP to the wonderful director and the team of the theatre, as well as our three beautiful dancers Fiona witherell, Adele gabbanelli and Sontje skabo. Also one more thank you to Fiona, assistant director for their wonderful job.
We also use the opportunity to say thank you to the and the for their generous support.

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