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Cry, but keep it Cute

Format: musical performance

Premiere at Produktionshaus NAXOS on 26 February 2026, followed by performances on 27 and 28 February 2026.

Concept, Performance, Stage, Costume: Nazanin Bahrami
Dramaturgy: Omid Mashhadi
Video:  Nazanin Bahrami
Music: Ernesto Ruiz-Vicente
Photography: Svetlana Mijić
Text compiled by Nazanin Bahrami and Shaghayegh Shahroudi from fragments of social media, Palestinian and Iranian eyewitness accounts, and a poem by Allen Ginsberg
 
Supported by Cultural Office Frankfurt am Main, Stiftung CITOYEN, Cultural Office Gießen 

An earlier work-in-progress version of Cry, but Keep It Cute was presented under the title You Have Seen This Before at TATWERK | Performative Forschung in November 2025 and at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in December 2025.

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 musical 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.

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