600 Steps Project

Posted on 10/11/2016 by infotaldans

Concept: Taldans
Creation: Filiz Sızanlı (TR), Mustafa Kaplan (TR), Kürşad Özdemir (TR), Iza Szostak (P), Karol Tymiński (P), Wojtek Ziemilski (P), Zorka Wollny (P)
Supported by: Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Prof. Dr. Nezih Orhon, Eskisehir Anadolu University Faculty of Communication
Project Director: Fırat Kuşçu
Thanks to: Salt Galata
Premiere: September 28, 2014, Body/Mind Festival, Poland

600 Steps Project is a project by Taldans, which was established by the Turkish dancer and choreographers Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sızanlı. 600 Steps Project is an exchange to mark the 600th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations Between Poland and Turkey (2014). The project aims to explore the themes of cities and the memories of two cities in particular: Istanbul and Warsaw.

The interdisciplinary project was carried out by dancers, musicians, choreographers, a composer and an architect/designer. The project was created together by Filiz Sızanlı, Mustafa Kaplan, Kürşad Özdemir, Iza Szostak, Karol Tymiński, Wojtek Ziemilski and Zorka Wollny.

The artists worked in urban spaces as well as in the studio where they experienced and explored the city as collectors. As a result, the viewers are able to see different kinds of installations of found-objects from the two cities, accompanied by performances which allow for a closer meeting with the artists.

The Phases of the Project:

– In August 2013, two artists from Istanbul – Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sızanlı of Taldans, worked in Warsaw. For the first four days of their stay, the duo explored the city and later organized blind dates with Polish artists. After working separately, the established group collaborated together on the final project during a three-day workshop.
– In February 2014, four Polish artists traveled to Istanbul for a ten-day residency. For the first four days, they lived in different parts of the city to explore it on their own. Following that, the whole group gathered together at SALT Galata in order to brainstorm 600 new ways of exploring the city.
– All the artists met in Warsaw for another one-week residency. At the end of their stay, the final project was represented at the Zachęta National Gallery of Art, on 28 September 2014 as part of the Body/Mind Festival.
– The final production was also presented at SALT Galata for Istanbul audience on 30 October 2014.

Past Performances:
Sept’ 2014 / Body/Mind Festival, Warsaw, Poland
Oct’ 2014 / Salt Galata, Istanbul, Turkey

We Need To Move Urgently @The Blob presents: Body Double – Stockholm Istanbul

Posted on 20/04/2016 by infotaldans

The Blob presents: Body Double – Stockholm Istanbul

WNMU_Stockholm

21.May.2016, Sat 18:00
22.May.2016, Sun 17:00
@MDT, Slupskjulsvägen 30, Stockholm, Sweden
for tickets please click here

We Need To Move Urgently

“There is a beautiful mess outside, how can you stay in?” is written on a city wall. “We need free space not castle dreams” says another wall text.

This project initially began by questioning the responsibility and role of art and science in current society. Later the process was subjected to a forceful social event that changed the course of the work- the events in Gezi park in Istanbul in 2013.

It was only one in a series of many deep social -and artistic- upheavals in the past years, from New York over Brazil or Lisbon to Istanbul. They gave rise to thousands of spontaneous ideas, initiatives and gave birth to a temporary social order that organized itself. Social cybernetics in the making.

Objects gathered from various cities, prompted us, as three individual performing ,artists, to relate to the events. Back in the studio, they became materials for an analogue spatial and mental model where we could grasp the processes and work in a free space. A model to zoom in and out from.

Taldans Taldans’ı Anlatıyor Ankara’da @CerModern, 29.04.2016 20:00

Posted on 15/04/2016 by infotaldans

taldans-final

Taldans Taldans’ı Anlatıyor
Anlatımlı Performans, 60dk
Konsept ve Performans: Mustafa Kaplan, Filiz Sızanlı

Taldans’ın yaklaşık 20 yıllık geçmişini anlatmak üzere yola çıktığı projede, Mustafa Kaplan ve Filiz Sızanlı kendi “repertuarlarında” bir yolculuk yapıyorlar ve repertuar fikriyle oynuyorlar.

Bu “Anlatımlı Performans”da projelerinde tartışmalarını ve araştırmalarını, ilişki içinde oldukları ve ortaklık yaptıkları sanatçıları paylaşıyorlar.

Eskiye ait olan bir bilgiyi nasıl güncelleriz, bugünden eskiye nasıl bakarız, geçmişi nasıl bugün yaparız sorularını soruyorlar. Var olan eski oyunlarını anlatan video, metin ve dansların bazı parçalarını alıp performatif bir yaklaşımla yeniden kurguluyorlar. Kaplan ve Sızanlı, Taldans hakkında bilgi veren ve bu bilgiyi oyunlaştıran bir yaklaşımla karşımıza çıkıyorlar.

CerModern: Altınsoy Cad. No:3 06101 Sıhhiye, Ankara, Türkiye
Saat: 20:00
Biletler: 20 TL
Biletler www.biletinial.com adresinde ve CerModern‘de.

Aynanın İçinden @Ariel Sanat, 09.10.2015 18:30

Posted on 03/10/2015 by infotaldans

Mustafa Kaplan ve Filiz Sızanlı Ariel Sanat’ta gerçekleştirecekleri performansta Shakespeare’in “Fırtına” oyununa sızmayı deneyerek tekinsizlik kavramı üzerinden galeri mekanına ve mevcut sergiye seslerini ve bedenlerini bir süreliğine yerleştiriyorlar. “Fırtınanın ortasında” birbirine yakalanan iki performansçının düeti Taldans külliyatına açık bir referans niteliğinde.
Süre: 10dk

Etkinlik ücretsizdir

Dolap @Istanbul Modern, 08.10.2015 19:30

Posted on 18/09/2015 by infotaldans

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Taldans

8.Ekim.2015, Perşembe, 19:30

Taldans “Dolap” adlı oyunu, YAP İstanbul Modern için yeniden performe ediyor. “Bedenin mimari ile ilişkisi üzerinden kurgulanan oyun” iki dansçının yer aldığı bir düet gibi görünürken, oyunun merkezinde konumlandırılan buzdolabıyla aslında bir trioya dönüşüyor. Makinanın büyük hacmiyle olan ilişki, süreçte insanın değil de nesnenin belirleyici bir rol oynadığını fark ettiriyor. Oyun, YAP: Yeni Mimarlık Programı kapsamında ve PATTU’nun müze bahçesi için tasarladığı KATI OLAN HER ŞEY adlı alanda gerçekleşiyor.

“Başlangıçta prova ve sunum aşamaları arasındaki farkın sadece etkisini azaltmak değil, onu tamamen yok etmek üstüne çalışıyorduk. Her prova, eser (eserin herhangi bir sunumundan biri) olabilirdi. Ya da her sunum farklı olasılıkların bir provasıydı. Bu şekilde, bir eserin her zamana ve her mekâna uyum sağlama sorununa meydan okuyabilecek bir formül bulmaya çalıştık. ‘Dolap’, sabit bir forma ya da önceden belirlenmiş bir sona sahip değildir ve bizim bu soruna yaptığımız bir çözüm önerisidir.”

Kavramsal Çerçeve & Yönetim: Mustafa Kaplan
Koreografi: Filiz Sızanlı, Mustafa Kaplan, Ömer Uysal
Performans: Filiz Sızanlı, Mustafa Kaplan
Kostüm: Petra
Süre: 40 dk.
Etkinlik ücretsizdir

8.October.2015, Thursday, 19:30

Taldans performs their play “Dolap” for YAP Istanbul Modern. Constructed on the relationship between body and architecture, the play at first seems to be a duet performed by two dancers, but with a refrigerator taking the center of the stage, it effectively turns into a trio. The struggle with the imposing bulk of the machine makes us realize that it is the object rather than the human being that plays a determining role in the process. The play takes place in the site-specific installation ALL THAT IS SOLID designed by PATTU for the museum’s courtyard within the scope of the YAP Istanbul Modern: Young Architects Program.

“At first we were working on a way to entirely eliminate the difference between rehearsal and performance rather than merely trying to reduce the effect of this difference. Every rehearsal could be the piece itself (or any one of its performances). Or, every performance was a rehearsal of other possibilities. Thus, we tried to figure out a way to challenge the problem of creating a work that can be adapted to any time and space. ‘Dolap’ does not have a fixed form or a predetermined ending. It is a solution we propose to this problem.”

Concept & Direction: Mustafa Kaplan
Choreography: Filiz Sızanlı, Mustafa Kaplan, Ömer Uysal
Performance: Filiz Sızanlı, Mustafa Kaplan
Costume: Petra
Duration: 40 min.
Free of charge

Taldans is at Fast Forward Festival 2 with X Apartments – Athens 21-24 May 2015

Posted on 14/05/2015 by infotaldans

Taldans is at Fast Forward Festival 2 with X Apartments – Athens

21-24 May 2015

Who lives in this city and how do they live? What stories are hidden from us by its apartment walls? What sort of narrative do the histories of its residents—privileged and anything but, natives and immigrants, young and old—form?
X Apartments encourages its spectators/participants to explore their city’s unknown private zone for a few short hours, to transform themselves into romantic flâneurs who visit the homes of fellow Athenians for an encounter with their lives. This fascinating urban happening is a theatre of the authentic situation, of familiarization, participation and coexistence. Directors and film-makers, architects, visual artists and choreographers from Greece and abroad turn these private residences into stage sets on which they present their in situ performances.

“The theatre has never before been possessed of such a desire for reality”, declares the pioneering German curator, Matthias Lilienthal (b. 1959), artistic director of various prestigious theatrical organization, whose radical productions move theatre out of the landscape of illusion into that of revelatory experience. Staging this site-specific excursion into the homes of others since 2002, he re-examines the boundaries between private and public space, colonizing and nomadic life, individualism and community, urban exploration and psychogeography. After Beirut, Johannesburg, São Paolo and many more cities besides, this unique dérive which invites us to penetrate deep into our fellow citizens’ private inner sancta is coming to Athens.

Instructions for the performance
X Apartments will run concurrently in two different areas of Athens. Spectators start in pairs every 10 minutes.
Part of the performance takes place at open-air locations and includes long parts of walking. The audience is advised to wear comfortable clothes and shoes, as well as a hat.
Performance duration: ca. 2 hours and 30 minutes

Tour 1
Starting Point: Cafe Krikelas, 2 Diligianni St. (Metaxourgeio Metro Station – Exit Diligianni)

Tour2
Starting Point: Cafe Pronto, 161 Liosion St. (Attiki Metro Station – Exit Liosion 149-169)

Timetable: Thu-Sun 16:00-20:00 (tours begin every 10 minutes, with 2 spectators per tour). Please click here for the exact time slots.

It is advisable to book your ticket in advance. You can also purchase your ticket from the starting points, as long as there is availability.
Age guidance: 18+ or 16+ accompanied by an adult.

The performances start exactly at the above mentioned hours. Please be sure that you arrive at the starting point 15 minutes prior to the performance scheduled start time. In case you will not be able to attend a performance for which you have purchased a ticket, please make sure to inform us at Τ. 213 017 8036. The performances can take place only with a specific number of viewers.

Duration:
ca. 2 hours and 30 minutes
The tours are held in English or Greek.

Concept: Matthias Lilienthal
Curated by: Katia Arfara & Anna Mülter
Research: Prodromos Tsinikoris
Dramaturgy: Katia Arfara, Anna Mülter, Prodromos Tsinikoris
Production Manager: Dimitra Dernikou
Technical Manager: Lefteris Karabilas
Line Production: Vassilis Panagiotakopoulos
Assistant to the Line Production: Theodora Kapralou
Coordination: Marina Troupi
Production: Onassis Cultural Centre-Athens

Artists:
Tour 1: Agios Pavlos – KolonosAndreas
Angelidakis (GR), George Drivas (GR), Syllas Tzoumerkas (GR), Ant Hampton (UK/CH), Markus Öhrn (SE/DE), Akira Takayama (JA), Doris Uhlich (AT)
Tour2: Agiou Meletiou – Kypseli
Anestis Azas (GR), Tzeni Argyriou (GR), Eleni Efthimiou (GR), Alexandra Bachzetsis (GR/CH), Chris Kondek (USA/DE), Boris Nikitin (CH), Taldans (Filiz Sizanli & Mustafa Kaplan) (TR), Daniel Wetzel (DE)

For details: Fast Forward Festival2 with X Apartments – Athens

We need to move urgently @EMWAP Festival, Istanbul

Posted on 12/02/2015 by infotaldans

WE NEED TO MOVE URGENTLY Türkiye prömiyeri!

31Mart/1Nisan 2015, 20:30 @Moda Sahnesi

İstanbul’da ki çalışmalarda bilim ve sanatın ilişkisi ve sosyal alandaki sorumlulukları üzerine sorular sorarken, ortaya çıkan büyük bir sosyal hareket prova sürecini etkiledi, çalışmada kullanılan listeleme, çeviri, zoom in/out metodları, bu geniş alanın sahneye aktarımında, dramaturjik araçlar haline geldi.

Moda Sahnesi’nde görüşmek üzere!

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