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Triple bill:
Café “gel de içme” / Café “can’t stop drinking”
Physical Theatre
13′
April 6th 2012, Friday | 18.30
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University
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to TRAVESTY: v. make a travesty of, ridicule, imitate, ape
n. parody, debased likeness or imitation
Realized with the support of 2010 İstanbul European Capital City of Culture.
Café “gel de içme” is a very well known, secluded beer house in the middle of Beyoğlu in which usually travestite sex workers are meeting with their customers. And the piece Café “gel de içme” is a naive try to TRAVESTY the unforgatable piece of Pina Bausch, Café Müller and create another landscape about gender studies just by changing the gender of some performers.
“…Pina… her women… her men… and what about my people who are not women or men / who women and also men? It is not a critic just a small present to the person who gives me the concept of “dance”… Replacing her favorite aria to my favorite Turkish classic music song… it is a coffee break with my beloved dance mother…”
Concept İlyas Odman
Performers İlyas Odman, Çağlar Yiğitoğulları, Zekeriya Yığcı, İpek Taşdan, Yağmur Gurur, Candan Seda Yalın Balaban
Singer Gökhan Pekçalışır
“Body as poetry… movement as music”
Choreographer İlyas Odman delves into contemporary literature, poetry and philosophy where he reaches the core of his performances. He is always on a search to find out a way to create a poetic fiction based on body. All these pieces can be seen as a result of some processes whose basis is acrobatics, physical theatre, contemporary dance techniques and experiments with daily objects. Odman and his performers try to discover the physical risk potential of daily objects by misusing them and redefining their function: as a result, they are reaching out to a “utopic” area where new physical rules should be sought to move forward. The performers placed under this risk should focus on their decision and personality during Odman’s performances. The audience watches in anticipation as some risky turning points call for spontaneous decisions: the tension on stage is felt by the audience. Ilyas Odman is searching for a unique expressionist physical theatre method. He combines methods from contemporary dance, acrobatics, risk technique and gesture theatre in an attempt to create an artistic production closer to performance art than imitative/expressionist dance art.
Odman’s pieces have been performed in Turkey, Belgium (Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels), Macedonia (Skopje), Portugal (Faro, Lisbon), France (Annecy) and Italy (Bra, Turin, Bologna, Catania). He won the summer studio scholarship from P.A.R.T.S 2006 (Belgium), while his last piece Glassmen was one of the most successful contemporary dance pieces of the 2007-2008 season in Turkey, attracting positive critiques from Dance Europe Magazine and Il Suggeritore.
Odman began dancing at METU Dance Theatre in 1998 and was a choreographer and trainer between 2000-2002. During this period, he began to attend dance classes in Ankara Modern Dance, Turkey. Alparslan Karaduman, Bürge Öztürk, Paul Clayden, Jan Pusch, Chevy Muraday, Dilek Dervişoğlu, Stephanie Parent, Martin Sonderkamp, Talin Büyükkürkçiyan, Rubato, Alexandre Abellan, Handan Ergiydiren and Karin Ponties are some choreographers with which he has collaborated. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with artists from different disciplines, including Bahadır Dilbaz, Karine Ponties, Ethem Özgüven, Umay Umay, Yüksel Aymaz. He attended to the choreographical class of Meg Stuart and worked as creative dancer for Karine Ponties’s project called Boreas. He also studied and danced in Armando Melluci’s (Paris 8 University) dance & technology project under_score. He produced Glassmen for GARAJISTANBULPRO and oggi, niente… for FABBRICAEUROPA. He performed in Jerome Bel’s The Show Must Go On İstanbul version.
He has also performed at:
– İstanbul Balkan Caravan Meeting
– IETM İstanbul Meeting
– İstanbulreconnects
– Holland SPRİNGDANCE Europe in Motion
– Holland JULIDANS
– France CND.
– Portugal 9th `asul` Modern Dance Festival / Faro
– Macadonia 3th Balkan Dance Platform / Skopje
– Belgium 0090 Kunstenfestival / Antwerpen
– Belgium East meets West Festival / Ghent
– Italy 2007 Festival delle Rocche / Torino
– Italy 2007 Festival Ports of Arts / Catania
– Italy 2007 Festival Insoliti / Torino
– Italy 2007 Teatra de Vita / Bologna
– Italy 2009 Exister / Milano
– Italy 2009 FABBRICAEUROPA / Florance
– France Extra’09 / Annecy
– Spain 2008 Huarte Contemporary Art Center / Huarte
– Spain 2008 Zaragoza Expo Balcony of Culture / Zaragosa
– Cyprus Art in Nicosia
– İstanbul CGSG Gecici İsgal Santralİstanbul
– 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 9. ODTU Contemporary Dance Festival
– 1 / 2 Turkey Dance Platforms
– Ankara International John Fowles Meeting
– Bodrum Gümüşlük Eklisia Church
– İstanbul Semaver Kumpanya
– İstanbul Maya Sahnesi
– Istanbul Duru Tiyatro
– Istanbul “gecici isgal” santralistanbul
– Ankara 3. ETHOS Theatre Festival
– İstanbul galataperform
– İstanbul ROXY
– 1 / 2 KargART Performance Days
– İstanbul French Culture Center
– Garajistanbul & Kargart “Bedenek” Contemporary stage Works
– Garajistanbulpro
– Contemporary Stage Works Meeting Kadıköy
– İstanbul European Culture Meeting – Darphane-i Amire
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