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    Reza Shah’s efforts to modernize the country during his reign (1925–1941) included significant infrastructure projects, such as building schools, railways, roads, and cultural institutions such as an opera house for hosting opera and ballet. However he had to abandon the idea due to the opposition of the shiite clerics.

    Although the exact details about Reza Shah’s plans for an opera house are not well-documented, there is evidence that he sought to establish Tehran as a modern cultural hub, inspired by Western models of development. However, these ambitions were not realized during his reign, as his focus was primarily on foundational projects like creating institutions for education and governance, along with addressing the country’s economic challenges.

    The vision of establishing an opera house in Tehran was carried forward during the reign of his son, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. This culminated in the creation of the Roudaki Hall (now known as Vahdat Hall) in 1967. Roudaki Hall was built under the Shah’s initiative and became Iran’s premier venue for opera, ballet, and classical music, showcasing the aspirations of the Pahlavi dynasty to foster cultural modernization and integrate Iran into the global arts scene.

    As institutionalizing the art form of dance and bringing about a professional national ballet ensemble comparable to the ballet companies in the West had become a serious concern for the government at this period, the Iranian monarch Mohammad Reza Shat Pahlavi personally asked Dame Ninette de Valois for her counsel on the formation of a ballet company during one of his official visits to London and after a command performance in his honor at the Royal Opera House on February 21.

    In May, Fine Arts Department of Iran’s Ministry of Culture committed Nejad Ahmadzadeh, former member of Nilla Cram Cook’s dance ensemble, and his wife Haideh Ahmadzadeh to establish a professional dance and ballet education for children and youth in Tehran in order to cultivate Iranian ballet dancers for a future national ballet company.

    August: Sent by Dame Ninette de Valois, Ann Cox, Miro Zolan and Sandra Vane were first to arrive in Tehran from London as ballet masters and dance instructors for the National Ballet Academy of Iran and the Iranian National Ballet Company.

    June: On the official invitation by the Iranian government Dame Ninette de Valois, the founder of Royal Ballet in London visited Tehran to put the foundation of a national ballet company for the country.

    August: Iranian National Ballet moved to its new home at Roudaki Hall Opera. National Ballet Academy of Iran moved to its new premises in the grounds of the newly built Amjadiyeh Sport Stadium.

    May: Robert de Warren left the Iranian National Ballet to found, on the initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Arts, the National Folklore Society of Iran and its affiliates; The Mahalli Dancers of Iran troupe and the Conservatory of National and Folkloric Dances of Iran.

    April: Completion of Tehran’s Roudaki Hall Opera construction, at the time, among the ten best equipped opera houses in the world.

    April: Iran’s Ministry of Culture was divided into three new ministries. The former Fine Arts Department developed to the Ministry of Culture and Arts.

    During its 12 years of activity, Roudaki Hall Opera hosted the world’s foremost choreographers, dancers and dance companies; Frank Sinatra, Maurice Béjart, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev, Merce Cunningham, Birgit Cullberg, Irina Prokofyeva, Andrei Kondratoff, Kirov Ballet, The Igor Moiseyev Ballet, Grand Ballet Classique de France, Le Ballet du XXe Siècle, Antonio Gades Flamenco Ensemble, Stuttgart Ballet, Berliner Ballett, Rambert Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, Nikolais Dance Theatre among many others.

    To give life to an artistic tradition after more than twenty years of interruption demands a willpower of the kind that only an indomitable yearning can give. This yearning to recreate what there has been, can be difficult to understand for us, who are not sharing the painful experience that often is behind.”

    February: Nima Kiann’s tour to the United States to meet and interview with former members of the Iranian National Ballet Company.

    September: Establishment of Les Ballets Persans’ Founders Circle. Among members: Marian Laurell (Managing Director of Cullberg Ballet), Lia Schubert (Founder and Director of Ballet Academy in Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Haifa), Dr. Karl Ryberg (Psychologist, connoisseur of dance, administrative advisor), Nima Kiann

    August: Start of the Premiere Production of Les Ballets Persans with the support of various Swedish authorities, among them; Swedish National Office for Cultural Affairs, National Integration Office of Sweden, Cultural Administration of Stockholm County Council, The Culture Committee of Stockholm, and private sponsors. Company members from 15 different nationalities gathered in Stockholm to work with a varied repertoire.

    October 7th: World Premiere production of Les Ballets Persans staged at the Royal Cirkus Theatre, Stockholm. The heroic ballet of “Babek” is included in the World Premiere production of the company. First introduction of contemporary Azerbaijan ballet in the West. Another Azeri ballet, “Seven Beauties”, is also included in the Premiere Production of Les Ballets Persans.

    March 5th: Artistic Director Nima Kiann appointed as the Principal Guest Choreographer of National Ballet of Tajikistan.

    May 9th: Season of the European Youth Dance Project organized in Dushanbe, at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Tajikistan named after Sadreddin Ayni.

    June 3rd: World Premiere of “Symphony of Elegy” in Dushanbe. Presenting the contemporary dance and Les Ballets Persans’ repertoire to the Tajik audience.

    June 10th: First presentation, after the fall of the Soviet Union, of the National Ballet of Tajikistan in the West by Les Ballets Persans. Premiere performance at Congress Centre Hamburg, Germany.

    October 10th: Season of the European Youth Dance Project organized in Stockholm, Sweden.

    February 4th: Artistic Director Nima Kiann meets with the Culture Minister of Kyrgyzstan, Mr. Sultan Rayev.

    February 5th: Joint Press Conference with Nima Kiann and Deputy Culture Minister Baktygul Belekova at the Ministry of Culture of Kyrgyzstan.

    February 13th: Season of the European Youth Dance Project organized in Bishkek, at the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Kyrgyzstan named after Abdylas Maldibaev, introducing the National Ballet of Kyrgyzstan’s first tour of the post-Soviet era in the West by Les Ballets Persans.

    March 20th: Manoto1 TV’s broadcasting of its exclusive Norouz program including 9 dances of Les Ballets Persans’ repertoire. First introduction of Persian character dance in a series of folkloric choreographies. World Premiere of “Golden Dreams” and new folkloric ballets; “Bahar Gəlir” & “Bahareh!”.