Nima Kiann is an Iranian choreographer and dancer, born in 1970 in Tehran.
Biography
Nima Kiann (Persian: نیما کیان; born January 26, 1970) is an Iranian-born Swedish ballet dancer, choreographer, visual artist, and dance scholar.
He recreated the disbanded Iranian National Ballet Company in Sweden, founded as Les Ballets Persans, and as their artistic director worked with national ballet companies in Central Asia, resulting in the revival of forgotten ballets, and organized the first international tour for the National Ballet of Kyrgyzstan and the National Ballet of Tajikistan since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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Contemporaries
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