African Dance

SALT Beyoğlu, Floor 2

African Dance is an experimental interdisciplinary art work consisting of video, installation, exhibition, performance, and dance.

A theatrical text, which takes reference from Sevim Burak’s short story and book African Dance, is expressed through different layers produced across various disciplines that address and complement each other. The work, as Burak explores in the story, builds on the concept of resistance as an act of “perseverance and persistent production, thus existence.”

The performance commemorates with respect her practice of resistence, which also informs “the spirit” of the theatrical aesthetic.

African Dance by Burak will be staged for the first time as a part of this project.

In collaboration with SALT
A coproduction of TAL / BAĞIMSIZ SANATÇILAR

African Dance

Writer: Sevim Burak
Adaptation / Director: Emre Koyuncuoğlu
Stage Design/ Installation: Yasemin Nur
Sound Design: Mert Öztekin
Dramaturgy: Selvin Yaltır
Assitant Directors: Pınar Arabacı, Gökçe Deniz Balkan
Production Assistants: Tuğba Tules Birincioğlu, Selin Durmuşlar

Performers: Ayla Algan, Sevi Algan, Erol Babaoğlu, Ferhat Büküş, Burcu Eken, Su Güneş Mıhladız, Fuat Onan, Hasan Uzma

African Dance and Live Music: Ibrahima, Agnes, Zita, Sara

Video
Script: Emre Koyuncuoğlu
Cinematographer: Vincent Rozenberg
Assistant Director of Photography: Serkan Çetinkaya
Lighting: Okan Çetinkaya
Editing: Mustafa Hazneci
Actress: Jale Arıkan

With the support of THE WORKS, “Objects of Desire”
Installation and Kat’î Performance:
Yasemin Nur, Gözde Nur Yılmaz

Acknowledgements: Elfe Uluç, THE WORKS, “Objects of Desire”, Karaca Borar, Çiğdem Borucu Erdoğan, Aydın Sarıoğlu, Nil Erkalır, Behiye Şenocak, Tennur Koyuncuoğlu, Emel Ogan, Güneş Terkol, Seçil Yersel, Gözde Nur Yılmaz, Gözde Üçok, Elif Öner, Aslıhan Eroğlu, Marmara Üniversitesi Sinema Televizyon Bölümü ve Marmara Üniversitesi Müzik Bölümü. Marmara Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Resim Bölümü, Kerim Kılıçaslan, Fatih Yiğit, Gamze Kutluk, Umut Yıldırım, Açık Radyo