I Don’t Remember the Last Thing I Forgot explores the relationship between the archive and artistic production, approaching the archive not merely as a place where documents are stored, but as a site where remembering, forgetting, and selective memory are produced.

Drawing on Troya İçinde Vurdular Beni (They Shot Me in Troy), a performance archived by the Theatre Research Laboratory (TAL) approximately thirty years ago, the project establishes a connection between the archive and the body. Revisiting TAL’s experimental theatre legacy through contemporary aesthetic and political perspectives, it reinterprets historical texts, movement practices, and spatial dramaturgy.

Rather than treating the archive as a fixed repository of records, the work approaches it as a creative ground for encounter, research, and re-creation. At its core lies the question: How is a legacy transmitted, transformed, and made visible?

In this choreographic research, shaped at the intersection of archive, memory, and body, the body becomes a narrator in response to the archive’s silence—making the invisible visible and allowing what has been forgotten to be heard once again.

Concept and Direction: Taldans

Choreography and Performance: Filiz Sızanlı, Mustafa Kaplan, Sevi Algan

Co-Production: Platform 0090

Sound Design: Sair Sinan Kestelli

Lighting Design: Jan Maertens

Lighting Realisation: Turan Tayar

Stage Design and Costume: Pınar Akkurt & Taldans

Camera: Nadi Güler

Editing and Translation: Sima Can Kaplan

Production: Taldans

Production Coordinator: Maya Çelem

Audio Recording Assistant: Ceren Yaygın

Supporters: ÇATI Contemporary Dance Artists Association, Platform 0090, Monty Theatre, Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality City Theatres, Kadir Has University

Special thanks to; Gökhan Deneç, Uğur Börklü, İTÜ MİAM, Can Karadoğan

Premiere: November 13, 2026

30th IKSV Istanbul Theatre Festival

Alan Kadıköy, Istanbul, Turkey

Photos: Sima Can Kaplan