Artistic Programme
September 16th 2010
19:00 İlyas Odman’s Oggi, niente…
Address: İstanbul French Cultural Institute İstiklal Caddesi No:4 Taksim
Duration: 45’
Free of charge for IETM participants
A Freelance Choreographer–Dancer, Odman’s pieces have been performed in several places throughout Turkey and also in Belgium (Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels), Macedonia (Skopje), Portugal (Faro, Lisbon), France (Annecy) and Italy (Bra, Turin, Bologna, Catania). He won the summer studio scholarship from P.A.R.T.S 2006 (Belgium), while his last piece ‘Glassmen’ was one of the most successful contemporary dance pieces of the 2007-2008 seasons in Turkey, attracting positive critiques from Dance Europe Magazine and Il Suggeritore.
Oggi, niente…( today, nothing…) is a dance theatre piece about death and mourning.
20:30 Dance Platform Festival* presents DansLAB
İdt+ & Bodies Anonymous
Remdans Project Group & Matej Kejzar
Address: CRR (Cemal Reşit Rey) Concert Hall Darülbedayi Caddesi Harbiye Şişli
Free of charge for IETM participants
Dance Platform Festival:15-22 September Dance Platform İstanbul is an international festival as well as training and production event designed in accordance with the “dance platform” format by İstanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency’s Theatre and Performing Arts Directorate. The Dance Platform İstanbul will set grounds for creating new choreographies, will bring the future of the art of dancing into discussion by outlining its present situation, and will gather Turkish and foreign choreographers, directors, dancers, designers, culture managers, academics, researchers, trainers and students working or studying modern or classic dances. The festival week of eight days will host choreographic platforms, shows, master classes, workshops, meetings, seminars, panels, video screenings etc. Dance Platform İstanbul will present professional choreographers as well as new artists and independent choreographers who work in a wide array of patterns on the modern dance basis. Dance platform will enable the debate on the art of dance with creative practices; and investigate the present and required situation of the art of dance in Turkey.
22:30 [laboratuar] performing arts research and project lab presents
an open rehearsal with excerpts from ŞEHR’Ü EVLÂD’ÜZ-ZİYAN: THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN
Address: CRR (Cemal Reşit Rey) Concert Hall Darülbedayi Caddesi - Harbiye Şişli
Duration: 30’
Free of charge for IETM participants
Designed & Directed by: Şafak Uysal; Original Text by: Beliz Güçbilmez; Conceptual Framework & Dramaturgy: [laboratuar]; Created & Performed by: Canberk Yıldız, Çağla Gülol, Eren Gülbey, Fulya Tekin, Güneş Özkal, Şamil Taşkın, Bonnie & Clyde; Sound & Visual Design: Doğuş Bitecik; Costume Design: Bahar Korçan; Set Construction: Alfa Beta Makine.
“Sometimes this city delves into a cloud of rain. Every day, the same hour. In the spring. For forty days…” ŞEHR’Ü EVLÂD’ÜZ-ZİYAN {SEZ} is a play about the times in which we live, about dreams that blend into each other at the moment of awakening, about nightmares and realities. It is a play that sets off from the experience of a city, that of Ankara, from the perspective of a
generation that has grown in the climate and aftermath of 1980s. The story of a city which begins right in the middle, like all stories... A documentary fantasy, in which something happens some day and nothing remains the same no more… A dream… “This is the story of an effort – to compensate. The story of those who were kids during 80s but who can only remember the post-80s. After everything else, this is the story of Ankara…” {SEZ} is an urban legend as much true as fictive. A city walked about by steps that get lost, not because they are not taken but rather because they are not engraved. A city in which even the most familiar gets lost. A city of “nows,” suspended between a past impossible to recollect and a future impossible to conceive. Thus, here we are, somewhere in the nook of this city that begins everyday anew again, in a bar from which time has retreated. There, a man and a woman – who drink so as to sleep, who cuddle up as they drink, who constantly chatter about nothing. “How do you distinguish the photographs of those who are sleeping from those who are dead? We thought they were asleep, we thought we were not alone… Yet…”
[laboratuar] is a collaborative project ensemble, primarily focusing on performing & visual arts. It basically feeds upon contemporary dance, physical theatre, performance art, architecture, film & video, design, literature and new media. It aims at hosting instances of experimentation by producing on- and off-stage experimental performance works that perpetually question the definition, boundaries and creative means of dance & theatre. Among its aspirations are to be able to install body and movement within various physical, spatial and conceptual contexts throughout processes of developing and creating new works. [laboratuar] is driven by an open system that consists of a resident core group, [corpus], along with partners in collaboration on a project basis
September 17th 2010
18:00 – 20:00 CUMA Contemporary Art Utopias Presents ISTANBUL AUDIO TOUR
Address: Starting Point is Urban Café, Kartal Sokak No.8 Beyoğlu
Duration: Haunted Path At Controlled Speed, 2009, Cevdet Erek (artist) 17’, Adventures in Acoustic Ecologies, 2009, roomservices (interventionist research institute) 30’,The Past That
We do not Want to Forget, 2009, Ergun Tükel (urban café manager) 19’,Safety Guide, 2009, Suat Öğüt (artist) 26’
Free of charge for IETM participants
İstanbul Audio Tour initiated by CUMA Contemporary Utopia Management with the support of the İstanbul 2010 ECOC Agency is a program that intends to frame İstanbul not just from an artist's point of view but through the insights and voices of designers, urban planners and artisans. It aims to communicate the variations between different perspectives, and to expose if only a few of the diverse expressions of Beyoglu to the local and international visitors as well as the public at large. The participant will follow the designated city tracks (specific routes) listening to the tracks recorded by the artist/designer/urban planner/shopkeeper on MP3 players. In the audio tours, the participants will also be provided with directions to be able to follow the predetermined routes while listening to these recordings designed to introduce them to an "İstanbul" perceived and lived in by the artist / designer / urban planner / shopkeeper.
The project’s second phase will be realized in 2010 and 2011, this time pointing to the fact that while the big cities of the world develop in terms of context and content, as they evolve into metropolises, they tend to resemble each other rather than grow different. The project will be held in collaboration between CUMA /// Contemporary Utopia Management (İstanbul), Hebbel Am Ufer – HAU (Berlin), Soundtrackcity (in progress (Amsterdam)).
20:30 Dance Platform Festival DansLAB & Choreography Platform Display presents [laboratuar] & BadCo., Handan Ergiydiren, Alper Marangoz
Address: CRR (Cemal Reşit Rey) Concert Hall Darülbedayi Caddesi Harbiye Şişli
Free of charge for IETM participants
20:30 Dans Buluşma presents Nigar
Address: Şahkulu Mahallesi, Serdar-ı Ekrem Sokak, No.5 Kat.4 Galata
Duration: 50’
Free of charge for IETM participants
Dans Buluşma is founded in August 2002 in İstanbul. Dans Buluşma İstanbul, starts its way to be a center to modern dance, contemporary dance and dance theatre classes with seminary and cinevision performances. And also wants to advance and push the way between reality and dream. Dans Buluşma is opening its doors to the IETM participants with its performance Nigar. Q&A
session will be following at the end. Nigar A Solo performance of Contemporary Dance “I thought of Nigar, the day I was walking on that street. Colorful bed sheets hanged on the ropes of the small balcony… They were dancing. I was fascinated…The breath that I took every time when I raised my head to look at them, made me dizzy when I looked down to see my way. Roses, daisies, lilies, lilacs, pinks, violets…I could not help thinking. Who is sleeping, who is tenderly touching, who are crying in silence, who are trying to forget while suffering to death… I wanted to forget. Nigar, I called. Now her intimacy is struggling on the street. Despite of the breathlessness at her home, she is full of air, flying. I am Aytul Hasaltun. I dance and sometimes I write. I remembered. I hanged my sheets on the following day.”
21:00 Dot presents MANDREL
Address: Dot İstiklal Cad. Misir Apt. No: 311/23 Beyoglu
Duration:80’
10€ for IETM participants
MANDREL was premiered on May 28th 2010 during the 17th International İstanbul Theatre Festival. MANDREL is a play that is adapted from the novel (MALAFA, 2005) by the writer himself who
has lately become a noted writer with a substantial fan base due to the new approach he has brought to the Turkish novel – an approach closely affiliated with underground literature. MANDREL is a tale about buying and selling. The story of those, who have given up on themselves to sell and of those who have lost themselves to buy. This is the story of tourism – the journey of money – not people. Written and adapted from the Novel by Hakan Günday.
22.30 NETWORKING PARTY!
ACPAI – Association of Contemporary Performing Arts Initiative host s IETM and DBM
Address: HESTIA Sıraselviler Cad. Soğancı Sokak Cihangir Palas Apt. No.3 K:2 Cihangir.
Free of charge for IETM participants
ACPAI is a civil and non-profit organization that aims at bringing about a transformative movement in the field of contemporary performing arts in Turkey by bringing together independent artists, groups, stages, theoreticians, instructors, cultural managers and academicians working in the field. The initiative was established in June 2005, with the aim of identifying, planning and implementing projects that will initiate a mobilization as such. It gained corporate status in August 2007 by establishing its own association. And now, the ACPAI members wants to host the Balkan Express participants as well as the DBM to introduce their network and initiate a dialogue for future possibilities at a home party in Cihangir thanks to our host Ms. Asiye Cengiz!
September 18th 2010
18:00 – 20.00 CUMA Contemporary Art Utopias Presents ISTANBUL AUDIO TOUR
Address: Starting Point is Urban Café, Kartal Sokak No.8 Beyoglu
Duration: Haunted Path At Controlled Speed, 2009, Cevdet Erek (artist) 17’, Adventures in Acoustic Ecologies, 2009, roomservices (interventionist research institute) 30’,The Past That We do not Want to Forget, 2009, Ergun Tükel (urban café manager) 19’,Safety Guide, 2009,
Suat Öğüt (artist) 26’
Free of charge for IETM participants
İstanbul Audio Tour initiated by CUMA Contemporary Utopia Management with the support of the İstanbul 2010 ECOC Agency is a program that intends to frame İstanbul not just from an artist's point of view but through the insights and voices of designers, urban planners and artisans. It aims to communicate the variations between different perspectives, and to expose if only a few of the diverse expressions of Beyoglu to the local and international visitors as well as the public at large. The participant will follow the designated city tracks (specific routes) listening to the tracks recorded by the artist/designer/urban planner/shopkeeper on MP3 players. In the audio tours, the participants will also be provided with directions to be able to follow the predetermined routes while listening to these recordings designed to introduce them to an "İstanbul" perceived and lived in by the artist / designer / urban planner / shopkeeper.
The project’s second phase will be realized in 2010 and 2011, this time pointing to the fact that while the big cities of the world develop in terms of context and content, as they evolve into metropolises, they tend to resemble each other rather than grow different. The project will be held in collaboration between CUMA /// Contemporary Utopia Management (İstanbul), Hebbel Am Ufer – HAU (Berlin), Soundtrackcity (in progress (Amsterdam)).
19:00 – 00:00 Caravansarai Grand Opening Party
The night will include: Artist projects, open studios, performances and live music, tours and a slideshow, late night DJs, dancing, food** and drinks
Artists' Projects: Sibel Horda, Daisy Frossard, Anita Bacic, Patricia Arno, Richard Barble, Isebuki
Performances: Deniz Aygun, Genco Gulan, Hasan Carpar
Choreographed Feast: Anika Weshinskey, Joao Paulo Nasri, Julie Upmeyer; Slide Show: Korhan Erel, Anika Weshinskey, Julie Upmeyer
Open Studios: Dominik Skrzypkowski, Joao Paulo Nasri
Our theme is 'Turkish Fusion' - favorite Turkish cuisine combined with elements of the cuisines of other cultures. For example: Turkish Sushi (using ingredients found in traditional Turkish food to make Japanese rolls. Or viceversa). Caravansarai is about sharing ideas, so creativity is encouraged!
20:30 Dance Platform Festival Choreography Platform Display presents Mihran Tomasyan, Alpaslan Karaduman, Esra Yurttut
Address: CRR (Cemal Reşit Rey) Concert Hall Darülbedayi Caddesi - Harbiye Şişli
Free of charge for IETM participants
21:00 Dot presents MANDREL
Address: Dot İstiklal Cad. Misir Apt. No: 311/23 Beyoglu
Duration: 80’
10€ for IETM participants
MANDREL was premiered on May 28th 2010 during the 17thInternational İstanbul Theatre Festival. MANDREL is a play that is adapted from the novel (MALAFA, 2005) by the writer himself who
has lately become a noted writer with a substantial fan base due to the new approach he has brought to the Turkish novel – an approach closely affiliated with underground literature. MANDREL is a tale about buying and selling. The story of those, who have given up on themselves to sell and of those who have lost themselves to buy. This is the story of tourism – the journey of money – not people. Written and adapted from the Novel by Hakan Günday.
22:30 CATI (CONTEMPORARY DANCE ARTISTS ASSOCIATION) DANCE STUDIO hosts OPEN REHEARSAL
Address: Sadri Alışık Sokak, No:33 B Blok, Daire:4. Beyoğlu / İstanbul
Duration: 25’,12’,18’
Suggested donation for IETM participants
CATI was founded in order to support and encourage creative efforts within the field of contemporary dance. Its goal is to cater to dancers, choreographers, set/sound/light/costume designers, theoreticians, critics, technicians and audiences aiming to enable creative collaboration between these artistic elements, realizing this in sync with other related organizations and/or venues. CATI will be hosting a showcase for young and upcoming dancers of the local scene presented by Performance Planet.
Performance no: 1 Shadow Tales by Performance Planet
Dancers: Gonca Gümüşayak, Erdem Gündüz
Live Music: Burçin Elmas (saxophone,sound design)
Duration: 25 ‘
Special Thanks to Banu Taylan, Ömer Uysal, CATI “Shadow Tales” combines Interaction of dancing bodies and shadows with improvisation. In the play, each of the performers tell the same tale but with different stories. The tale is simply the search of a person for his/her partner that makes us search for reaching the inner self/ the suppressed part/ the shadow. What do the shadows tell us when they change their forms, when they are touched or intervened behind each other? What is there? - reaching the real of the shadow part?
Performance no: 2 izaman 2.0
Performance/ Choreography: Erdem Gunduz
Music: Arvo Part
Duration: 12’
In this performance it is explicated that relation between time both with movement and change how perceived by memory and soul.
Performance no: 3 Can't get enough of Play-ers, How To-y –to Play?
Improvised Sound Performance & Toy Design: Banu Taylan
Improvised Performance: Gonca Gümüşayak,
Duration: approximately 18’
Players who cannot get enough of playing, sounding toys, fixgig, players of silence, dance plying with sound, sound playing with dance, dance playing with the wind, players who play with sound of toys, player who plays with her vocal, players who cannot get enough of it...
23:00 CLOSING PARTY!
Address: Suriye Pasajı İstiklal Caddesi, No.348, Kat:4 Tünel Beyoğlu
Free of charge for IETM participants
The organisation committee is organising a surprise closing party for you! Our host will be Manzara İstanbul. All details will be discovered as you step in the party…
