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cirCUMstances
Movement Theatre
80′
April 7th 2012, Saturday | 21.30
SAHNE Kadir Has University
With Surtitles in English
Years of jumping rope, playing dodge ball and selling hand-made necklaces made out of sea shell. Debating the death penalty in the universities while impatiently awaiting our new “bayram” clothes. Nurturing ourselves only with domestic products, and participating in torchlight festivities. Trying to shape our breasts with teacups. Voluntary dim outs, waiting on huge lines for gas. Some learned to read with the words: “Strike Here”. As gun shots were fired in front of the local Soup-Shops, we turned on our electric-radios and waited for them to warm up. Birds rested on telegraph lines. We wore hoop skirts and crazily munched sun flower seeds. We had neighbors with classic names like Nebahat, Müzeyyen or Münevver. We continuously wrote compositions and hunted flies with plastic gadgets. We screamed “All You Need is Love” while properly humming “As Night Falls Sorrow Becomes Me Again” according to tune…
(Certain times happened, certain times didn’t. Disabled needles were stuck and impeccable scars appeared. Certain lies were told, certain games were played.)
Post scriptum: The work deals with the re-writing of the history from a civil and personal angle. With history we mean the “past moment” which includes even the past hour, and with civil and personal angle, a form of playing in which we include autonomous apprehension and resistance.
Design and Staging Movement Atelier
Art Director Zeynep Günsür
Movement Director Deniz Olgay Yamanus, Ece Ulutan
Light Design Alev Topal
Sound Design Tolga Yüceil
Costume Design Deniz Olgay Yamanus, Leyla Okan
Technic Arda İpek
Production Nnaco
Movement Atelier Deniz Olgay Yamanus, Dizem Kaftan, Ece Ulutan, Gizem Soysaldı, Gülsu Aren, Kaan Yüceil, Leyla Okan, Nilgün Günsür, Özden Çetin, Sibel Günsür, Zeynep Günsür (Deniz Boro Polat, Gamze İneceli, Meral Erdogan)
References Memory of Movement Atelier, Oral History, Tanıl Bora / Türkiye’nin Linç Rejimi, H.E. Adıvar / Mor Salkımlı Ev, Tezer Özlü / Çocuklugun Soguk Geceleri, Feroz Ahmad / Bir Kimlik Peşinde Türkiye , Zeynep Sayın /İmgenin Pornografisi, Metin Erksan / Time of Love (1965, film)
Music Ceviz Oynamaya Geldim / Müzeyyen Senar, Home Comings / Erkan Ogur, Aksam Oldu Hüzünlendim Ben Yine, Kara Tren, You Are My Sunshine, Çarliston, Bayram Gecesi, Gel Güzelim Çamlıca’ya, Osman Pasa Türküsü, Hatırla Sevgilim, Aglama Degmez Hayat, Uyu Demeye Geldim, Havuzbası, Sevdim bir Genç Kadını, Je ne veux pas Traviller, Buruk Acı
Movement Atelier has been formed by Zeynep Günsür in November 1999. It is a performance company continuously working with people from different backgrounds and with different bodies from ranging ages. The projects concentrating on the body and its expressions use different disciplines. The encounter of space-architecture/sound-music/movement- dance/text- literature/film-media is experimented in various levels. These projects primarily focus on body’s own history and memory. In a way, mental openings and conduct comes before the physical. The atelier continues to dwell into the need of creation in the field of performing arts.
Movement Atelier is a member of Contemporary Performing Arts Initiation (ACPAI).
Projects:
2000- Show 1, Roxy Club, İst.
2001- Show 2, Roxy Club, İst.
2001- “If only”, Naturel, TÜYAP, İst.
2001- “August”, Palm Court Hotel, Ayvalık
2003- “Country” , performance film (İF Short Film Festival), İst
2003- “Intersections 1”- with Naz Erayda-, Lütfi Kırdar Stage, İst.
2004- “Intersections 2”- with Naz Erayda-, Roxy Club, İst.
2005- “Intersections 3”- with Naz Erayda-, Roxy Club,İst.
2005- “Country/Journey”- EU-Turkey Cultural Relations Forum (Darphane-i Amire), İst.
2005- “Country/Journey”- Cihangir Festival-OpenSpace (Cihangir), İst.
2006- “Country/Journey through Memory” (Antakya Contemporary Arts Meeting), Antakya
2006- “Country/Journey through Memory” (IETM/İst. meeting), (Nnaco/Stüdyo), İst.
2007- “Human(ly) Condition” (İstanbul Dance Festival- DBM Meeting), İst. (Garajİstanbul Programı), İst.
2008- “Human(ly) Condition” (0090 Kunstenfestival), Antwerp. (Garajİstanbul Programe), İst. (University Theater Festival), Adana.
2009- “cirCUMstances”, (iDANS Festival, May) Ist.
Contact zgunsur@yahoo.com
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