Emerging from ‹Bazm (Repertoire)›, ‹SCALE› concentrates its choreographic world into a single dancer. But what happens to scale when there is nothing to measure against? Conventionally, scale belongs to reason: bodies become comparable, space measurable, movement divisible. Here, scale becomes volatile. A gesture may be minute yet immense; a second can expand beyond its measure. Form is no longer contained by Euclidean space but unfolds through duration, intensity and attention. Scale becomes a mechanism between dancer and onlooker, continuously altering the magnitude of what appears. Rather than reducing Bazm, SCALE asks whether choreography can become larger precisely by becoming less: one body producing multiplicities, distances and temporalities that refuse stable proportion. Dance appears not at a certain scale, but as the continuous scaling of perception itself.

Choreography: Armin Hokmi, adapted from Bazm (Repertoire)
Dance: Lee Gyeongjin
Costume design: Moriah Askenaizer
Costume production: L’atelier Bas et Hauts Paris

Production coordination: Ashley Molco Castello
Co-productions: Radialsystem Berlin, Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse | Montpellier Danse + CCN Occitanie as part of the Montpellier Danse 2026 Festival and the “Associate Artist” scheme of the Ministry of Culture, CNDC Angers, Ballet National de Marseille, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, Charleroi Danse Berlin, Rosendal International Theatre, Dansens Hus Oslo, Bergen Internasjonale Teater, euro-scene Leipzig, Norrlandsoperan Umeå

Supported by: Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin, Le Fonds franco-allemand Transfabrik, Nordic Culture Fund, FFUK, Arts Council Norway

Supported by the residency programme at PACT Zollverein (Essen) funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the “O Espaço do Tempo” residency program and FELD/LAB, an initiative supported by the Goethe-Institut in Portugal.

Armin Hokmi is an Iranian choreographer and dancer whose internationally acclaimed work reimagines dance as a living, unstable repertoire. Moving between familiar forms and dances escaping recognition, his choreography combines precision, persistence and sensuality with an interest in histories pushed to the margins. His works include ‹Shiraz›(2024) and ‹Bazm (Repertoire)›(2026). He was Associate Artist at Montpellier Danse 2024–26 and works internationally across Europe and beyond.