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Nana Jam · Performance · Ritual · Body

The body remembers.

A living archive of movement, mythology and embodied memory.

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Body

The sensing body

Ritual

An ancient pulse

Memory

What remains

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Selected works

Performance, dance, ritual and moving image.

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Toronto · Nuit Blanche · Live performance

Angel of Wind

A dance performance with live music and poems inspired by the Avesta, moving between air, breath, light and darkness.

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Performance · Myth · Renewal

Tishtrya

A luminous figure of rain, fertility and renewal takes form through costume, movement and the promise of life after darkness.

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Performance · Asha · Transformation

Pateth

A physical meditation on confession, conscious correction and the return to truth, order and right action.

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Artist statement

Movement becomes a bridge.

Nana’s work lives where body-mind awareness, ritual practice and Persian ancient mythology meet.

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Publication

Light Created the World

Author · Nazanin Nana Valajam

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Art journal

From the studio.

Recent notes on performance, embodiment, culture and the work as it evolves.

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September 22, 2026

Religion, Culture & Politics

Religion, Culture & Politics: An Interdisciplinary Panel on Iran Convenes in Toronto TORONTO — Aura Art Group, in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Victims of Torture

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Art roots

Memory is carried in the body.

Persian Zoroastrian knowledge, migration and a changing relationship with land shape Nana’s artistic language.

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Art listens to the body.

Therapy works with what it says.

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