Sim Sala Bim

Fleur Khani

Khani has established herself in the past years as a musician, music performance maker and collective collaborator. Her practice centers around voice, music and physicality in theatre and performance, and is fundamentally polyphonic and community based.

Khani studied Dramatic Arts at the Royal conservatory in Antwerp and deepened her artistic language in the post-graduate program a.pass (Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies) in Brussels. She graduated with the work Textures (2013) a work around text, physicality and voice. This research got her the Danceweb Scholarship (Vienna, 2013). She also worked with Austrian theatre director Claudia Bosse as a result of her stay in Vienna.

Back in Brussels she started making her own work. In 2016 she released her first piece Homework (2016), funded by the Flemish authorities. Simultaneously she started working with Myriam Van Imschoot in the Brussels YouYou group, an all female vocal collective that gathers around the zaghreet, where she worked until 2021 as performer, repetitor and director throughout multiple creations in public space, museums, theatres and community centers. In 2019 she presented her second piece The Value of the Piece, a redesign of the economy around performing arts, which then resulted in the research project Utopia Needs a Business Plan (2021). Both were supported by the the Flemish authorities and by several partners in the Flanders
and Brussels. In 2021 she started creating the visual art’s series Did I See It? – a collection of images that attempt to capture desires from the subsconscious.

Since 2019 Khani produces urban music with Iranian influences that she releases under her own name. She has played shows in ABclub (Brussels), Vaartkapoen (Brussels), Arenbergschouwburg (Antwerp), De Koer (Gent) and other venues.

“Without any frills this performance artist manages perfectly to translate drama into art pop.” (Didier Becu, reviewing Khani’s single Alexis)

In 2023 she created her first big theatre work Halleluja – a vocal theatre piece that gathers 28 local people to create a jubilee feast of joy. Halleluja is a performative festivity that sings, dances and celebrates when the world is falling apart. It premiered in May 2023 in Antwerp and won the international Music Theatre Award. In 2025 Khani is working towards the release of her debut album Sim Sala Bim in 2025. Simultaneously, she is preparing a new opera called ZAN that will premier in September 2026 (De Singel, Belgium) and she is collaborating with HERMESensemble as a stage director and dramaturg for Vesalius 2.0 (Bruges, Belgium, 2026)