In "Pss, Pss! Chop, Chop!" Shivā Amiri explores the traces of prolonged displacement through transgenerational experiences. The work negotiates questions of nation-statehood, gender, and queerness. It is a biographical search for stories, images, and people — inseparably connected to loss. In order to remember, Amiri visits the grandmother’s house in Kabul, researches the sites of refugee camps, and dances Attan with the spirits of the family. The result is a personal archive of sound, dance, poetry, and Sofra — a transcultural life and resistance.

Direction, Choreography & Performance: Shivā Amiri
Artistic Advisor: Elisabete Finger
Assistant Director: Saeed Asadsangabi
Sound Design: Mahtab Sabetara
Composition Attan: Hadja Rastagar
Poetic Audiodescription: Elnaz Farahbakhsh
Costume: Pedro Abad
Stage Design: Shivā Amiri
Translation Surtitles: Elnaz Farahbakhsh
Production Manager: Micaela Leon Gutbrod, Amiri.Art.Productions
Assistant Production Manager: Anna Hennecke

Many thanks to: Bibi, Wen, Thelma, Hamid, Kit, Fred, Zolfar, Vida, Burun, Hooman, Armeghan, Kiki, Mareike

With kind support by: Kulturamt Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Frauenreferat Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Hessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur, Afghanistan Cultural Funds (ACF) of the Goethe-Institut, Stabstelle Inklusion Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Naspa Stiftung.