Nima Kiann
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January 26, 1970 Tehran, Iran |
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Nima Kiann (Persian: نیما کیان) (January 26, 1970) is an international ballet artist, choreographer, visual artist and dance scholar.
He recreated the disbanded Iranian National Ballet Company in Sweden and through his dance company, Les Ballets Persans, established close contacts with national ballet companies in Central Asia resulting in revival of forgotten ballets, introducing contemporary dance in some parts of the Caucasus and Central Asia and organizing the first international tours for these companies since the breakdown of the Soviet Union. Kiann is recipient of several international awards.
Nima Kiann was born in Tehran, Iran and acquired a multi-disciplinary training in painting, calligraphy and graphics at Tehran Fine Arts School (Persian: هنرستان هنرهای زیبای پسران تهران). At the age of seventeen and during the ongoing Iran-Iraq war, he left his native country moving first to Turkey and later to Sweden. Entered the Gothenburg Ballet Academy in Sweden in 2001 and started his elementary ballet training at the age of twenty-one as the only male among many younger female dance students. Improving rapidly in his classical ballet training, Lia Schubert, the founder director of the academy, took him under her wings and scheduled a special classical training program for Kiann. His advancement in classical ballet resulting in dancing principal roles at Theatre Talia, already during his education period, and his upcoming artistic achievements is a legacy of Lia Schubert. Kiann received his first professional dance contract in 1994 at the Göteborg Opera (Gothenburg Opera Ballet), a year before completing his dance education at the Academy. After his graduation, he continued his dance education at École supérieure de danse de Cannes Rosella Hightower in France and later took part in various master classes throughout Europe. His early and later training in classical ballet was under Lia Schubert, Susanne Lindström, Anthony Ferro, Rosella Hightower, Marc du Bouaÿs, James Urban, Hassen Bahiri and László Mézsáros.
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