Selected work · Archive
A women-centered space for training, choreography, and performance in Tehran.
From 2012 to 2022, Banafsheh Amiri founded and directed Miniature Dance Academy and Miniature Dance Group in Tehran, teaching across ages and levels while building original repertoire and interdisciplinary performance projects.
Miniature was a school, a company, and a sustained act of making space: for rigorous training, creative authorship, collaboration, and women moving together.
The academy supported students across experience levels and age groups. Teaching, choreographic development, rehearsal, performance, and community building were part of the same long-term practice.
Miniature Dance Group created interdisciplinary annual concerts with musicians and vocalists, along with original Iranian dance works for stage and video.
This page begins a living archive rather than a complete record. Photographs and future film excerpts will preserve the scale, intimacy, and collective labor of the project while connecting it to Banafsheh’s current teaching and research.
