KA-F-KA is Mehdi Farajpour’s most autobiographic work in term of aesthetics, movement, rhythm and images. When watching the performance, the first questions coming in mind are: What does an exhausted body have to expose? Or in a better word, how an overwhelmed body can dance?

Running backward around a circle for almost half an hour before starting the performance is just the beginning of KA-F-KA. A dancer with a dizzying head, with muscular contractions, out of breath and unbalanced by the fatigue is the first image one would possibly see when watching KA-F-KA.

KA-F-KA of Mehdi Farajpour, inspired by Franz Kafka’s visual universe, is a free interpretation of his famous text: Metamorphosis. Likewise Farajpour’s other performances, KA-F-KA is also built up on an interdisciplinary (and not multidisciplinary) structure that means walking in between the lines of different disciplines instead of putting them together just for the sake of it.

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Mehdi FARAJPOUR is a Paris based choreographer and artistic director for ORIANTHEATRE Dance Company. He began as a theatre artist but now is considered as conceptual performance artist. His artistic career covers various art fields such as dance, theatre, video, poetry, performance and installation art. He divides his time between creating shows for the company and teaching his creative movement method called EMPTY BODY.

Examples of the venues & festivals where Mehdi’s works (Shows & workshops) have been presentend : IMPULSTANZ festival (Vienna, Austria), PUF (Pula, Croatia), OPERA-PRIMA festival (Rovigo, Italy), Institut du Monde Arabes (Paris, France), Istrian National Theatre (Croatia), NOTAFE (Estonia), SOLO festival (Moscow, Russia), TESZT festival (Romania), CRICOTEKA (Tadeusz Kantor’s Museum in Krakow), Wroclaw National Art Museum (Poland), FIAT festival (Montenegro), TANZFAKTUR (Cologne), MOHO festival (Perm, Russia), Contemporary Choreography festival (Omsk, Russia), Londrina Dance Festival (Londrina, Brazil), Teatro Santa Isabel (Recife, Brazil), Kypria Festival (Limassol & Nicosia, Cyprus) etc.