Turkey
Salon IKSV
Concept & Choreography: Ilkay Türkoglu
Choreographical Materials & Perfomances: Ilkay Türkoglu, Sebnem Yüksel
Lasts 25’; no intermission.
Ilkay Türkoglu, who has worked abroad –particularly in Budapest– with various dance companies and choreographers after her graduation from Modern Dance department of the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, performs her choreography titled Queen of Hearts in the festival. The artist’s account of the work is: “They allowed the associations triggered in their bodies by the images which came into being in their minds to take them on a journey. They have been created by their creations along the way. Just like the Phoenix which is reborn anew from its ashes, the process first destroyed and then recreated each of them over and over as a new “self”. The pain they felt was, perhaps, not that of the mother who gave birth to them but that of the human being who struggled to find a new body from its ashes of death.”
Written by Eric de Volder
Directed by Mesut Arslan
Dramaturgy Ata Ünal
Translated into Turkish by Saban Ol
Co-produced with Mesut Arslan/Theater Onderhetvel, Kunstenfestival 0090, Toneelhuis, Belgium
Lasts 60’; no intermission.
The Room and The Man is about the probability of love and relationship which expresses itself in the obscure details of daily life... The play is based on a single text which discusses, from two different perspectives, the man and the woman who both complete contradict with each other. The Room and The Man tours about the ambiguous and transitional as well as the tense boundaries of the monologue and the dialogue, of the colloquial and intellectual languages, of the simple and the complicated, of the imagination and the reality and of the man and the woman. It confronts the audience both with the attempt of following the simple story and with the multilayered associations of the blend of the language, sound, body and the image. On one end, it is the skyline between the dream and the reality, on the other, it is the intrinsic relationship among the woman, the man and the image.
Zimmerman & de Perrot
Switzerland
Co-produced with Istanbul Theatre Festival
Concept, Direction and Stage Design Zimmermann & de Perrot
Music Dimitri de Perrot
Choreography by Martin Zimmermann
Dramaturgy Sabine Geistlich
Light Design Ursula Degen
Sound Design Andy Neresheimer
Construction Decor Ingo Groher, Christiane Voth, Théâtre Vidy Lausanne
Lasts 80’; no intermission.
With Turkish surtitles.
Like magicians conjuring up something out of nothing, Zimmermann & de Perrot elicit hidden meanings from objects, bodies and sounds. Hans was Heiri builds on the insight that we humans are surprisingly similar when it comes to basic needs and desires. Does life often seem to fail simply because we, as individuals, try so hard to be unique and different? In Hans was Heiri, Zimmermann & de Perrot approach this conundrum with wit, humour, frustration and philosophical depth.
IDT+Istanbul Dance Theatre
Turkey
Choreography by Geyvan McMillen, Devrim Ileri Tozkoparan
Stage Installation Dilara Akay (HAYAKA ARTI)
Dancers Sernaz Demirel, Devrim Ileri Tozkoparan, Tan Temel, Özerk Tozkoparan
Lasts 40’; no intermission.
Exploiting the wealthy resources of rich Anatolian history and of the variety of its culture, IDT+ was founded to produce interdisciplinary projects enriched withAnatolia’s history and cultural diversity in the national and international milieu. Geyvan McMillen, Dilara Akay, Sernaz Demirel and Tan Temel, founders of the company, keep seeking their original language of art departing from the social and cultural milieu which they belong to. Geyvan McMillen describes their project Jaded Secrets as: “Although our eyes and souls are not always aware of the magnificence of the creation, we have always admired this extraordinary event. Here we have come, there we go. ‘To be or not to be’, the secrets and our secrets with us to the eternity...”
Text by Tiyatro Bogaziçi
Directed by Ilker Yasin Keskin, Aysel Yildirim, Özgür Eren, Özgür Çiçek
Project Advisers Ömer F. Kurhan, Metin Göksel
Lasts 110’; 2 acts.
Encounter/S focuses on the stories of siblings fallen apart from each other and discusses the impact of the social transformation Turkey has been experiencing on the various sections of the society. Rauf Bey is one of the shareholders of a big construction company and is one of the last of the generation who have always been faithful to the ideals of Republic of Turkey... Now it is his funeral... His only heir is his adopted son Dr. Mehmet... He is a plastic surgeon... Dr. Mehmet is not really interested in either the company business or politics. Rauf Bey bequeaths a considerable sum and a “secret” whispered in his ear on the deathbed. Dr. Mehmet is confused with these two items of inheritance, one formal and the other private, and postpones his decision which everybody is expecting him to make. He starts looking for his mother, brothers and sisters he has never seen. Then he meets his brothers and sisters who have different lives.
Studio 4 Istanbul
Turkey
Directed by Fatih Gençkal
Dramaturgy Ibrahim Halaçoglu
Co-produced with Deniz Buga, Onur Karaoglu
Lasts 70’; no intermission.
Studio 4 Istanbul presents performances which themselves design and frame as well as works of Turkish and foreign playwrights which they interpret with a new theatrical approach. In Atis Serbest (Shoot the Bull) their last play staged in Istanbul, they viewed Turkey’s young population living surrounded with violence. In their new project Isn’t It?, they go back to the childhood days of these young people seeking how the environment they have grown up framed their lives in their youth.
Heinz Spoerli director
Claudius Herrmann cello
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suites, No.1, No.4, No.5
Europe’s leading choreographer Heinz Spoerli visits the festival on his farewell tour to stage with two productions; a chef-d’oeuvre project truly enchanting for the lovers of ballet and Bach. “… und mied den Wind” benefits Spoerli’s boundless creativity as well as Zurich Ballet’s artistic proficiency and dynamism, and brews in Bach’s Cello suites to yield an unforgettable show, welcomed with standing ovations world-wide, now for Istanbul audiences.
Lasts 80’ without interval.
Heinz Spoerli director
Claudius Herrmann cello
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suites, No.2, No.3, No.6
Acclaimed for performing to perfection a vast repertoire spanning from the classics to contemporary works and especially renowned for staging the most dramatic ballets ever, Zurich Ballet this time presents a very special project to Bach’s Cello Suites. The troupe’s dancers, distinguished for their polished technique Spoerli, who says that choreography is a dialogue with the music, will be at the Hagia Eirene Museum for his final show, which will create long-lasting repercussions in the hearts and minds of both ballet and music lovers.
Lasts 90’ without interval.
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