Taldans on Taldans

Taldans uses memory as a way to experience to explore and revisit a collective past in their work titled ‘Taldans on Taldans’.  Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sızanlı, who have been working together for 30 years already, recall their journeys as dancers and choreographers with this work. They consider their repertoire as an open archive that they reexamine. They prefer no re-enactments but present new interpretations of various parts from their earlier works. Through this approach, the past becomes a dialectic space reopen for debate.

Such a method, that is extremely productive in terms of its application, Taldans desires to look at an intimate history (or rather a common history consisting of intimate stories) by subjective revisites and with an approach where they can pursue a different historical path through individual experimentations.

While conveying the reflection of their pasts as an architect and an engineer on the choreography, they address the effects of the working body and body image expansions of the common movement language they have built over the years on their choreography. They examine the effects of the concepts of energy dramaturgy, kinesthetics, potential energy and irony on the dramaturgical structure of the work through scores, series and notations.

Lecture Performance, 60′

Concept and Performance: Mustafa Kaplan, Filiz Sızanlı

Light: Utku Kara

Sound: Sair Sinan Kestelli

Past Performances

Bipod Festival, Lyon, 2021

CerModern, Ankara, 2016

MSGSÜ Bomonti, 2014

TheatreWorks, Singapur, 2010

Photos: Murat Dürüm