Melih Gençboyacı

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Triple bill:

Access to Anxiety

Dance
18′
April 6th 2012, Friday | 18.30
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University

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…a Body, Words, Thoughts.

Reset. Action.

Reset. An attempting body. Attempting to entertain. To communicate.

Silence. Lost.

Reset…

Reset. Something else starts to emerge…

Reset. A lonely struggle…

The Urge to express yourself and to communicate takes over. On stage is everything possible, it is a powerful space. Lost in possibilities. In endless possibilities. Doubt grows. Attempting to communicate is failing. Body in interest. Body in Anxiety. Access to Anxiety is a physical, visual 1m2 performance about the anxiety for the absence of the performer.

Concept & Choreography & Performance Melih Gençboyacı

Music Selim Doğru

Lightdesign Joost Giesken

Photo Melis Aksoy

Premiere Nottdance Festival 2011,  Lincoln Drill Hall, UK.

Melih Gençboyacı (Pirmasens/Germany, 1977) is a theatermaker and performer. He  has been living and working in Amsterdam since 2004. He studied Economy at Bursa Uludag University Turkey and Fine Arts Academies, Theatre / Acting department at Izmir Dokuz Eylul University. He worked during and after his acting study with Baris Erdenk, Varlam L. Nikoladze, Sibel Sonmez, Zerrin Akdenizli, Şaban Ol, Eric de Volder. After that, he studied  movement and physical acting at the MIME departement at the Theatre School, Amsterdam. His work is situated on the threshold of movement, performance and visual arts. He seeks to precisely articulate sense and experience, through performances, installations. His performances are composed musically, and suffused with subtle humour. They are characterised by minimal stage sets and a focus on the performer as a human being and the relation between the body in center and installations. In all his work, he examines the function of movement in the context of performance and theatre.

He was invited to make a location performance Underkoffer for children in Het PALEIS (2007) Antwerpen/Belgium. With his graduation performance Compromise Melih Gençboyacı was nominated for Ton Lutz Prize during IT’s Festival. In 2008 he co-founded with his classmates SCHWALBE, the Rotterdam-based theatre makers’ collective. Made with them the performances Spaar ze, on own power and Schwalbe cheats, which they are touring in Europe and the Netherlands. He worked as performer with Roy Peters, Marc Vanrunxt, Ko van den Bosch, Lotte van den Berg, Sarah VanHee, Bogaerdt/van der Schoot, Sarah Ringoet.

He works at Frascati Theatre in Amsterdam where he has made two performances Olmak and Lost & Found. Lost & Found is considered in the first place of top 5 season overview 2010-2011 in the theatre magazin Theatermaker in the Netherlands. Melih Gençboyacı made for the summer festival De Parade (2010) the performance Sag mir wo die Blumen sind and for Amsterdamse Bos theater (2011) Playground 52˚ 19’ 18’’ N 4˚ 49’31’’ E. In 2011, with his solo performance Access to Anxiety he was invited to Notthingam dance Festival to participate in EIM in February 2011 and is selected for a stipendium to participate Theatertreffen/Internationales Forum 2011. Recently he is working for Zina Platform/Female Economy – Adelheid Roosen as maker/performer for the performance Wijksafari which will come out in May in Amsterdam.

www.melihgencboyaci.com  melih72@hotmail.com

Ingrid van Frankenhuyzen wrote about Access to Anxiety:

Melih Gençboyacı will perform a solo piece: Access to Anxiety. Standing in front of a microphone he slowly takes posession of the room with his repetitive loud gasps and accompanying staccato movements. He does not leave his fixed spot, though rocking back and forth, and with hit arms and legs he tightly marks out the space around him. Sparsely, the rigid choreography gets hints of playfulness by rhytmic winks, or Gençboyacı’s turning up his collar. It makes a fascinating piece.