Taldans

Meeting with Yelin Bilgin*

Meeting
60′
April 7th 2012, Saturday | 12.00
Taldans Studio Karaköy

Taldans was established in Istanbul by Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sızanlı in 2003. Kaplan and Sızanlı have created many independent and collaborative projects. Some of the projects they have created together are Sek Sek (2002), Solum (2005), Graf (2006), Dokuman (2009) and Eskiyeni (2011).

Taldans was named after the Theatre Research Laboratory (TAL) of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Theatre in which a movement-dance research unit was established by Mustafa Kaplan. A number of individuals who used these studios by the support of Ayla Algan and Beklan Algan have founded ÇATI (Contemporary Dance Artists Association) after leaving Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Theatre.

*For those who are curious about future plans of Taldans, an hour meeting with the company’s manager, Yelin Bilgin. yelin@taldans.com

http://taldans.com

Mustafa KAPLAN (1965, Konya) started taking dance classes from Geyvan McMillan in Istanbul, where he had moved to study Electronics Engineering at Yıldız Technical University. Although he completed his undergraduate, he never worked as an engineer. After dancing in the Modern Ballet Company between 1989-1992, he worked at the City Theatre of Istanbul as a choreographer and dancer for about ten years. He is the co-founder of dance and performance companies such as Yeşil Üzümler, Dans Fabrikası, Taldans Company, and Çatı Association.

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Filiz SIZANLI (1975, Eskisehir) was graduated from Istanbul Technical University’s Department of Architecture in 1997. She participated in various projects of Theatre Research Laboratory of Istanbul Municipality Theatre from 1998 to 2000. In 2000 she was among the co-founders of Çatı Association in a collective artist group. She worked on projects with Mathilde Monnier, Emmanuelle Hyunh, Yann Marussich and Mustafa Kaplan. In 2003 she founded Taldans together with Mustafa Kaplan. Her choreographies in Taldans include Üç Ayak (2001), Sek Sek (2003), Graf (2007), Dokuman (2009) and Eskiyeni (2011). Her solo pieces are Solum (2005) and Site (2010).