About the Artist
Ghazal Ramzani is an Iranian, Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, Kathak dancer, choreographer, facilitator, and researcher working at the intersection of decolonial practice and speculative choreography across stage and film. Her work investigates erased movement histories, develops counter-techniques grounded in marginalized genealogies, and cultivates collective authorship within embodied practice.
She is the founder of Kathak Dance School Berlin and co-founder of Kalatva Collective, and collaborates internationally across artistic and academic contexts.
Her debut dance film Self-Portrait and Other Ruins was selected for numerous international dance film festivals, including the Cannes Dance Film Festival and Multiplié Dance Film Festival in Trondheim. She has been an artist in residence at Alfred University (NY), received a research grant from the Ionian University (Greece), and her work has been supported by Spore Initiative, the Goethe-Institut, and the Kemmler Foundation.
Ghazal holds an MFA in Contemporary Performative Arts (Gothenburg), a Diploma in Kathak (New Delhi), and a BA in Philosophy / Arts / Media.
Forthcoming
July 2026 OAK Spring Interdisciplinary Residency program - Upperville-VA, United States
September 2026 Goethe Institute research grant - New Delhi, India
Awards, Stipends, Residencies
November 2025 Kemmler working grant for ongoing artistic research “Choreographies of Erasure”
February 2025 IEA Artist in Residence program, Alfred University - Alfred-NY, United States
2024 Travel grant of Rewilding cultures program, Ionian University - Corfu, Greece
2024 Dance Film Making 2024, official Selection of dance film Self-Portrait and Other Ruins
2023 Dança em foco, Official Selection of dance film Self-Portrait and Other Ruins, Rio De Janero, Brazil
2023 NeosFest, Honourable Mention of dance film Self-Portrait and Other Ruins,Monterey, Mexico
2023 Lift-Off Global Network/First Time Filmmaker Sessions, Official selection of dance film Self-Portrait and Other Ruins (Iver, UK)
2022 Göthe Institute international artist residency program, Banaras, India
2020 Artistens Vanner scholarship, Gothenburg, Sweden
2015-2018 Indian Council of Cultural Relations student scholarship, New Delhi, India
Projects
2022 Protest Dance Piece: Revolution of Bodies, co-choreographer and performer with Saeed Asadsangabi, Berlin, Germany
2021 Self-Portrait and Other Ruins, Dance Film production as part of the MFA-project, produced in Qaemshahr, Iran
2020 Maمآ , international video performance festival Dislocada, Columbia and India
2018 Kali, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi, India
2017-2018 Kalatva Collective, New Delhi, India
2016 Tarana, Queer Carnival-Göthe Institut, New Delhi, India
Exhibitions
Publications and Interview
3. A review of “Beyond Beyond” (performance installation)
Collaborations
2023 Short Film: In the darkened room, directed by Sina Aghazadeh, choreographer, DFFB, Berlin, Germany
2016 Surshree-Dance and Percussion Duo by Ghazal Ramzani and Renu Hussain, choreography and dance, Mindpirates, Berlin, Germany
Projects as stage dancer
2017 Kathak Dancer at Guru bin aisi kaun kare by Pt. Rajendra K. Gangani, Kathak Mahotsav Festival, Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi, India
2016 Dancer at WEME Ensemble, artistic director Fakhroddin Ghaffari, International Art Festival DIAF, Kamani Auditorium, New Delhi, India
2016 Kathak Dancer at Sargam, Choreography Pt. Rajendra K. Gangani, Kathak Utsav Festival, Kathak Kendra, Jaipur, India
2016 Kathak Dancer at Swami, Choreography Pt. Rajendra K. Gangani, Vivikananda Auditorium, New Delhi, India
2016 Kathak Dancer at Guru, Choreography Saroja Vaidyanathan and Pt. Rajendra K. Gangani, Kumbh Mala festival, Ujjain, India
2016 Kathak Dancer at Sargam, Choreography Pt. Rajendra K. Gangani, Kathak Utsav Festival, Gurgaon, India
2016 Kathak Dancer at Basant, Choreography Pt. Rajendra K. Gangani, Kathak Utsav, Chandigarh, India
2015 Kathak Dancer at Sargam, Choreography Pt. Rajendra K. Gangani, ICCR Alumni Awards, New Delhi, India
2014 Kathak Dancer at Sargam, Choreography Pt. Rajendra K. Gangani, Junges Theater, Göttingen, Germany
Teaching
2024 Guest Mentor at HZT, Berlin Germany
2023 Kathak Instructor at Moving through styles workshop series, Tanzfabrik, Berlin, Germany
2019-2024 Instructor for Kathak, Global Music Academy, Berlin, Germany
2023 Performance-Workshop for Rainwater Symphony at Floating University, Berlin, Germany
2020 Kathak Instructor at Theatre House Da, Tehran, Iran
2019 Dance Facilitator at Hella Mädchenklub, Berlin, Germany
2018 Dancer and dance educator at Performance-Workshop Series in schools in collaboration with NGO Music Basti, New Delhi, India
2018 Kathak instructor at kathak Workshop for adults Tandem Festival, Oxford, UK
2018 Kathak instructor at kathak Workshop for Tap Dancers, Michał Wierzbowski dance group, Warsaw, Poland
2018 Dance Facilitator at summer intensive music and dance workshop for girls at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Göttingen, Germany
2017 Dance Facilitator at summer intensive music and dance workshop for girls at OM10, Göttingen, Germany
2017 Dance Facilitator at Familien für Kinder / 1zu1 für Flüchtlingskinder, Berlin, Germany
Education
2020-2022 M.F.A. Contemporary Performative Arts, Academy of Music and Drama-University of Gothenburg, Sweden
2015-2018 Diploma Classical Kathak Dance, Kathak Kendra-National School of Kathak Dance,India, New Delhi
2009-2014 B.A. Philosophy, Arts, Media, Universität Hildesheim, Germany