i say longing, i imagine return

To recognize that we cannot move in the pathways we already had,
one asks: how, then, should we move?
Departing from questions around ownership,
be/longing,
and otherness in the relationship between body and land,
one asks:
can we radicalize our imagination of the future?

Tenderness is investigated as an ability to be affected;
an openness,
a recalling of our struggle,
a gap in existing in the ways that have been prescribed to us,
a temporal suspension—
a pause to locate ourselves,
and understand what we can bring to this moment of normalized crisis and violence.

Acknowledging our collective exhaustion,
this dance is a letter, a fiction,
a witness
that remembers
patiently, introspectively, moving toward a fragile hope.

In this choreographic work—through writing, image-making, dancing, and engaging with archives—Kiana Rezvani navigates the spaces between testimony, memory, and the fragile edge of political imagination.

In this delicate act of attending comes heartbreak, and a remembrance of the entangled futures we carry. Dance is a return to longing, in every gesture, emerging through repetition, rupture, and transformation.

And what remains after loss, is a call toward life, toward practice.