Torang is a collaborative performance created by two friends living miles apart: UK-based theatre-maker and performer Mahshid, and dance artist Hanieh, who first met through their shared love of movement. Now living in two countries, they reunite digitally to create a space where they can dance, share stories, and bypass the distances and limitations that shape their everyday lives.
Drawing on their personal histories and the movement language that informed their early dance journeys, Torang blends dance, text, and digital presence to explore how stories can travel, shift, and adapt across borders. Rather than centring solely on struggle, the piece celebrates moments of joy, resilience, and connection—threads that continue to hold their friendship together despite physical separation.
It offers audiences a glimpse into a shared imaginative space shaped by trust, curiosity, and the desire to keep dancing.
Torang becomes a window into a world of constant change and quiet bravery—revealing what it means to be a female dancer in Iran today, and what it feels like to make a show with a friend an entire continent away.
Supported using public funding by Arts Council England
Tobi King Bakare and this theatre deserve a shout-out for such a young, diverse audience. There is so much talk about audiences being full of over 60s and why, why can’t theatres get the crowds in to reflect society in general? Well, I’m happy to say that on a rainy Thursday evening, the theatre was completely full.
Caiti Grove on Before I Go in CPT's Spring 2023 season London Theatre Reviews
