Heartbeats is based on the conversations between Dian and Nastaran. This is a performance about how we look at death, and about the taboo that still surrounds it. 

Nastaran Razawi Khorasani invites us to imagine the unimaginable. This is a documentary performance about one simple but difficult truth: the fact that we are all mortal. She brings to the stage the story of Dian Sahertian-Boers and her struggle with an incurable disease. Dian’s words, the light and the music follow their own heartbeat in a constantly changing space, representing a world beyond death. 

Nastaran: “In this life – shaped by ideas of progress and control – there is very little room for the unavoidable end. Is my own fear of dying perhaps a fear of the great Nothing? While looking for answers, I met Dian.”
 

This performance is spoken in Dutch, but has English subtitles.

concept, director and theatre maker Nastaran Razawi Khorasani scenography and video Peter van Til (Brother Till) light Minna Tiikkainen music Joost Maaskant dramaturgy Tobias Kokkelmans  costumes Sara Hakkenberg creative advisor Suzan Boogaerdt, Davy Pieters production manager Hanne Blomme marketing Dieke van der Spek campaignphotography Sanja Marušić