Light has teeth begins with a body almost swallowed by hair. What looks like protection slowly becomes weight, costume, landscape, trap and instrument.
In this first chapter of a larger performance, vocalist and composer Sanam Tahmasebi and dancer Roshanak Morrowatian move through a dream ritual where voice, hair, sound and live projected image keep shifting roles. Live singing, electronics, cello, made percussion, contact microphones and recorded voices of Iranian women poets form a score that moves between song, noise, breath and memory.
The work does not tell one story. It follows a body trying to surface, a voice trying to stay present, and a freedom that arrives with gravity. Somewhere between dream and reality, tenderness and pressure, Light has teeth asks what begins to surface when hiding is no longer possible.