The Manipulation project
Sept 2023. Location and Date TBD
Shooka Afshar composed The Manipulation Project, based on her life experiences, and therefore the repetition of some trends. She then became interested in the human psyche and how a human being is drawn to a manipulative situation or person, how it influences her/his life, and then how that person gets out of that situation. She believes every human being deals with it, on some level or another. But it's our choices, that creates our response to those situations.
First, Shooka wrote the skeleton of the project in April 2022. After then, she invited 7 other artists, dancers and musicians, to do an Artist in Residency in the Biella Province, near Milano, Italia, for the whole month of July 2022.
Shooka and her team, created a graphic score / improvised dramatic performance, which received great feedback from several acclaimed artist in Italy.
The Manipulation Project received positive review in a few magazines and newspapers in Biella.
