Kiyan Khoshoie (Geneva, 1988) is an artist of Swiss-Iranian origin. Before taking up dance studies, he was a gymnast and a diver, practising both disciplines at a high level. He attended his first ballet class at the age of seventeen. Two years later, he entered the Rotterdam Dance Academy and later trained with the junior company It Dansa in Barcelona. Under the direction of Catherine Allard, he performed pieces by Ohad Naharin, Jirí Kylián, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Stijn Cellis and Alexander Ekman.

After his academic training, Kiyan Khoshoie returned to the Netherlands and began dancing professionally with the Dansgroep Amsterdam and the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam. After these experiences working in companies, Khoshoie decided to pursue more theatrical and performance-based works: he then collaborated with Swiss choreographer Tabea Martin in Field and Beyond Indifference and with Finnish choreographer Cecilia Moisio in the production Victory.

Back in Geneva, he created Grand Écart in 2018, under the direction of actress Charlotte Dumartheray. The work was part of the Sélection suisse en Avignon 2022. Kiyan Khoshoie also performed in Julien Chavaz’s Pelléas et Mélisande (NOF) and curated the choreography for the contemporary opera Le Dragon d’or at the nouvelle Comédie de Genève.

Khoshoie regularly holds workshops for young dancers (Area Jeune Ballet, CFC danseur interprète, Ballet Junior). At the same time, he develops his choreographic work with his company KardiaK. In 2021, he received a grant from the City of Geneva for his choreographic research project Wannabe. In 2022, he co-created Kick Ball Change with Charlotte Dumartheray at the Grütli, Centre de production et de diffusion des Arts vivants, and toured it in French-speaking Switzerland. The work was one of the five winners of the RTS competition De la scène à l’écran and is currently being adapted for the screen by director Géraldine Rod.

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Wannabe
2024 Edition
04.10 – 13.10

Kick Ball Change
2023 Edition
29.09 – 08.10