Beyond Skin presents

Music & Movement of Displacement and Belonging

Belfast International Arts Festival

26th October. 7.30pm. The Duncairn. Belfast.  TICKETS LINK

Musicians and dancers Daisy Electra (Ukraine), Taranom Pazhuhan (Afghanistan) and Persian pianist Ali Kazemi will headline a concert with a diversity of musicians defending artistic freedom to enable change. More musicians to be announced.

Performances will cross genres Classical, HipHop, Avant-garde, Jazz, Rock and Pop.

Daisy Electra is a Ukrainian-born artist blending electronic modular synthesis, sensual vocals, and ambient cabaret piano into immersive performance rituals. Her work reclaims erotic power and movement, botanical memory, and mythic femininity — creating experiences that are both deeply emotional and visually arresting. With roots in experimental performance, vocal studies, and plant science, Daisy Electra transforms every show into a multisensory myth.
Performing alongside her musical partner - Ali Kazemi, a Persian pianist, multi instrumentalist and composer, they builds hypnotic, narrative-driven sets layered with modular rhythms, haunting vocals, and electric plant symbolism.

Taranom Pazhuhan is a young Afghan woman dancer, and musician blending expressive movement with Persian and English vocals in emotionally charged performance. Her work is rooted in memory, resilience, and beauty — giving voice to the silenced and reclaiming space through sound and dance. She brings a new work shaped by the voices of Afghan women — a performance that moves between grief and power, pain and hope. Taranom was once an Oboe player in the Afghan Women's Orchestra before the fall of Kabul with the regime banning music & dance and enforcing gender apartheid. Taranom now lives in Finland enjoying her freedom as a woman and artist.

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