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CRY, BUT KEEP IT CUTE

dance/performance

FRI 27.02.2026
8:00pm

Produktionshaus NAXOS

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The image presents a highly stylized, graphic drawing in intense contrasting colors. Against a vivid orange-red background, neon-blue lines form an abstract human figure. The central figure’s face is drawn with expressive, rough strokes—eyes sketched in quickly, a wide open mouth suggesting a cry or shout, and a hood-like outline framing the head. On the left, one arm is raised, rendered with bold, energetic strokes. Scattered around the figure are hand-drawn words such as ‘RAISED ARMS,’ ‘OPEN MOUTH,’ and additional partially legible phrases. The overall linework feels raw and spontaneous, conveying emotional tension and urgency. The composition combines movement, agitation, and a sense of expressive outburst.

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How reportable is it to witness the suffering of others? How do we bear witness to this suffering? How do the pain and grief of others resonate within us? How can we form a connection to distant pain and death separated by vast geographic and cultural distances? Could the concealment and distortion of reality through biased reporting be among the deepest injustices of humanity? How can we protect ourselves against this normalized, hidden, manipulative news machinery? How do we preserve our humanity in a world designed to create “Others,” to categorize, archive, and rank people?

“Cry, but Keep It Cute” is a dance performance. It develops movement scores as a form of resistance against the overwhelming flood of manipulative news imagery. It examines pain and death as mediated by mass media—how bodies absorb representations of loss, death, and war.

Concept, Performance, Stage, Costume: Nazanin Bahrami

Dramaturgy: Omid Mashhadi

Video: Navid Javan Shojamofrad

Music: Ernesto Ruiz-Vicente

Photography: Svetlana Mijić

Text compiled by Nazanin Bahrami and Shaghayegh Shahroudi from fragments of social media and Palestinian diaries, alongside a poem by Allen Ginsberg.

Supported by Cultural Office Frankfurt am Main, Stiftung CITOYEN

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