MATCH at Frascati, Amsterdam
Begüm Erciyas
April 3rd, 2012
MATCH represents what seems to be unrepresentable. Performers are consigned to things one cannot fully assume. Sometimes the task is to perform the inanimate object that neither acts nor speaks, but only is. Sometimes it is to act out the thing that is ungraspable in its abstraction or its monstrous implications.With its hesitations and repetitions, its interruptions and resumptions and its explicit admission, MATCH’s process of creation bears witness to the obscurity of standing for other things.
Choreography: Begüm Erciyas
With: Anja Bornsek/Irina Müller, Dennis Deter, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias
Sound: Lucas Vincent Dietrich
Light: Sandra Blatterer
Produktion: Begüm Erciyas › Produktionsleitung: Barbara Greiner › Unterstützt von: TanzWerkstatt Berlin, fabrik Potsdam – Tanzplan Potsdam: Artists-in-Residence, AHK / de Theaterschool Amsterdam, Tanzfabrik (Berlin) › Gefördert aus Mitteln des Hauptstadtkulturfonds
MOTHERS at Antalya 3rd International Theater Festival, Antalya
Ro Theater
May 15-16, 2012
Mothers is a production with 11 mothers from the city of Rotterdam, all with different ethnic backgrounds. The setting is a big kitchen. Guided by director Alize Zandwijk on the spot, the women present intimate monologues about their personal (but universal) motherhood, during which they prepare a course for the audience. At the end of the performance, dinner is served.
Alize Zandwijk: “The power of women amongst themselves is something we barely recognise. The cheerfulness, the energy, the intimacy and the humour that women from other cultures can share with one another is something I want to show. Theatre is actually nothing more than an encounter. There is a community on the stage, but also in the auditorium. For the duration of the performance, a group of people sit together watching that community on the stage. Every spectator may have their own opinion of it – one thinks this bit is stupid, and the other that bit – but they all share that experience of watching together.”
Cast: Ana Sanches, Clara Sies-Frank, Dennis Mendez Contreras, Eline Mohunlol-Jaharia, Katherine Yusefi, Mahnaz Morrowatian, Marianne Greweldinger, Miquê Hamden, Nastaran Razawi Khorasani, Nicky Odumegwu, Rose Marie Trumpet
Director: Alize Zandwijk
Dramaturgy: Liet Lenshoek
Set Design: Lidwien van Kempen, John Thijssen
Lighting Design: Wim Bechtold
Production: RO Theater
WERWARD CONTRATENOR at De Parade, Amsterdam
Nuri Harun Ateş
August 16- 17 – 18, 2012
LICK BUT DON’T SWALLOW! at De Keuze Festival, Rotterdam
biriken
September 24 -25, 2012
Lick But Don’t Swallow! by Özen Yula tells about the dream of a porn star to save herself and the world. The play handles the painful realities of our own time via the heroine, whereas it reveals a dramatic critic of the feeling of emptiness created in contemporary society. The project created and performed by the collaboration of biriken collective with the actress Ayça Damgacı is an examination of non-hierarchical co-existence of video, text and performer where the actors goes back and forth between “performer” and “character”.
This reality, while effecting the political and social developments, sneaks into our lives, our rooms, even into our TV and computer screens. It defines our lives. In Lick But Don’t Swallow! we hear about the desperate situation of the world that is described by the statistics and is transmitted to millions of people by the news bulletins updated any moment. Leyla passes this on to us in a place where she was not supposed to be and in a way that is far from the “political correctness” which may in fact be an art of lying.
Set and Video Design: biriken
Light Design: Metin Çelebi
Camera: Cenk Örtülü
Project Assistant: Ferdi Çetin
Co-production: Bimeras | iDANS (TR)
biriken and Ayça Damgacı give special thanks to Andrew Boord, Aydın Silier, Başak Özdoğan, Cenk Oğlakçı, Giancarlo Marcopoli, Gurur Ertem, Mahir Günşiray, Mark Levitas, Muharrem Yılmaz, Yeşim Özsoy Gülan, Asi Film, darmaha, GalataPerform, Haymatlos, Kumbaracı50, Tütün Deposu, Tiyatro Oyunevi.
COUNTDOWN at Rotterdam, Amsterdam & Istanbul
November 20 – 21, 2012 | Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam
November 22 – 23, 2012 | Frascati, Amsterdam
November 24 – 25, 2012 | Rotterdaministanbul, Istanbul
Yowsah, yowsah, yowsah!
In Countdown 4 performers challenge each other to confess their deepest secrets. Who has the biggest secrets and who has the most stamina? Time and again, they confess in order to shake off the past, to ask us for forgiveness, to make a new start. Or that’s how it appears. Countdown is an intimate performance between hope and shame, reality and fiction.
In reality shows and interviews, political discussions and daily conversation confessions fly in abundance. But what can be done with them? Is this profusion of crimes and transgressions ever really digested or understood? Is a confession the ultimate form of self-exposure or just another mask that we can hide behind?
Concept & Performance: Christina Flick, Melih Gençboyaci, Kimmy Ligtvoet and Ilyas Odman
Music Design: Ata Güner
Light Design: Guido Langendok
Dramaturgy: Loes van der Pligt
Production: PERFORM2012, Productiehuis Rotterdam
Text contribution: Eylül Fidan Akıncı, Magne van den Berg, Sanne Vanderbruggen, Işıl Eğrikavuk, Rob de Graaf, Yeşim Özsoy Gülan, Marjolein van Heemstra, Eva van Manen, Nazmiye Oral,Yiğit Sertdemir, Jibbe Willems, Fırat Yücel
ROTTERDAMINISTANBUL at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
November 24 – December 11, 2012
Nicole Beutler, Jan Martens, Guilo D’Anna, Emio Greco | PC
RotterdaminIstanbul program, including performances and workshops of young Dutch choreographers, was realized in Istanbul between November 24 – December 11, 2012 in collaboration with Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Perform2012 and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University.
The first edition of RotterdaminIstanbul was presented as part of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture programme in 2010. This second edition was supported by TIN and MCN within the framework of the celebrations of the 400th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Netherlands and a part of ‘Dutch Delight’, the Dutch performance arts programme.
The Programme featured 5 performances of 4 different companies, 1 installation and 1 workshop presentation, 5 workshops in two different venues.
SINGING STORIES ON SPEAKING MOUNTAIN at DasArts Open Days Weekend, Amsterdam
Aslı Bostancı
January 21st, 2013 
The idea of writing songs from local and global stories and animating characters for these blending with my own imaginary were the start point of creativity. Our research process consisted of making of songs about the chosen stories. Then, each story generated a character that I could impersonate and play the role of. The characters are mostly dead or unreal that’s why I choose to call them “characters of beyond-world” because of their existence of non-existence. During the research period, the idea of metamorphosis was the focal point. At the performance, I alternate between the “characters of beyond-world” and the vocal performer.
ALI ile RAMAZAN at DasArts Open Days Weekend, Amsterdam
Studio 4
January 21st, 2013
The company’s latest production is a stage adaptation of prominent Turkish writer Perihan Mağden’s bestselling novel, Ali and Ramazan. The novel reimagines the real tragic love story of two young male orphans in 1990s Istanbul, whose deaths became public through a third page story in the media. Preliminary rehearsals began in early January 2013 with a workshop in which the company members began investigating the aesthetics and possibilities of creating a performance based on two nonfictional characters: an lgbt activist and a performer from Istanbul.
Perform2012 
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