Turna / Kranich
From a Western perspective sometimes falsely described as a dance, Semah is a spiritual duty practiced in Alevism as part of the Cem ceremony, the gathering of the community. In a culmination of movement, recited narratives called ‘deyiş’ and music performed on the traditional lute Saz the Semah-turners can rise to an emotional trance sometimes associated with the unification with the sacred animal of the crane.
We Need to Move Together!
We need to move together! is an exchange project between German and Turkish dance artists. The two weeks of gathering aims at zooming in cultural and language mechanisms that construct the bodily practices and vice versa. The lab builds up on exchange of working...
We began walking THERE we have been
Darkness fills the space. Very slowly, the contours of more and more things begin to appear. All of the elements on stage – the bodies of two dancers, sound, light and various objects – are considered to be equal protagonists. Each detail influences the progression of...
ReVerbs_2013
The ReVerbs performance is based on rhythmical durations of the expansion and repetition of a gesture, which, through progressive resumption is intensified and grows sharply. In the absence of the music, the body creates its own supple and resonant reality. A reality...
Reverbs
A dance creates movement, creates rhythm, creates wind: Through the “Reverbs’” echo, choreographer Özlem Alkis molds a moving sculpture, a sound installation or a dance continuing in the audience’s bodies. While three performers in constantly changing constellations...
Reverbs_feiern
13 women meet. But what does that actually mean: meeting each other? Encounters move us. We move each other. But when do isolated movements become a 'movement', also in the political sense, when do randomly meeting people become a group? And what holds them together -...
wir wollen verschwinden
We are expected to be identifiable, public and available. Yet at the same time, we want to disappear, disappear into the flora and fauna inhabiting the wild landscape of our material and immaterial identities, diving into collective consciousness. The boundaries...
Soundtracking the Stage
Angespannte Hände und Füße fräsen sich beharrlich in den Tanzteppich. Fünf Körper bearbeiten ihn mit all ihrer Schwere, mit Haut, Schuhsohlen, Kleidungsoberflächen. Es schrammt, jault, schleift, kratzt, röhrt und dröhnt. Die Wucht des anschwellenden Sounds, den die...
Dust Devil
Dust Devil is a type of a light whirling wind; a natural phenomenon that in some cultures it is also associated with the spirits of the dead. Dust Devil, light whirling wind forms in the condition of extreme hot air near the surface rises up and when the cooler air is...
Dogpark
Our initial point is a video of a man playing with his dog in a park. The video is a very rough handy-cam video that is filmed from far away in a flat park-ground in Cologne. What caught our interest about it was the level of abstraction that was reached by the...
Camouflage
Towering shapes staggering in the crepuscule, the stage’s back wall turns into a black hole, a piece of fabric seems suspiciously animate, yet it is hard to discern which bodies actually do house a heartbeat. “Camouflage” is an ingenious game of hide-and-seek in which...