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30/9/2010

iDANS

Different venues, Istanbul

The 4th edition of iDANS, which takes place throughout October 2010 in Istanbul, revolves around the theme of “Cosmopolitanism.” iDANS aims to bring into attention the complexity, hybridity and heterogeneity of identities and expose the multiple cultural affiliations of artistic practices. The festival program highlights the “choreographic” as a practice of cultural, political and affective negotiations and probes the relevance of artistic expressions for an agonistic public space.

As a political, ethical, and cultural notion and as a way of life, cosmopolitanism insinuates a capacity to understand, negotiate and embrace cultural diversity. Under the rubric of contested meanings and different significances of “cosmopolitanism,” iDANS examines the relations between space, place and environment; the tension between local affiliations and universal imperatives; the patterns and conditions of human mobility, settlement and exclusion; the changing meanings of community and belonging; the affinity between cities and cosmopolitan imaginaries; and the transnational space-time of imagination and geography-bound imaginables.

What might cosmopolitanism in the arts entail? Does the field of live arts take for granted the fact that cultures have always already been hybrid, rendering concerns of boundaries irrelevant? How is cosmopolitanism experienced in everyday life and urban space by diverse social actors? How do “new cosmopolitanisms” depart from and challenge conventional notions of cosmopolitanism espoused by the state and/or market forces?

What modes of belongings and displacements are produced in/by the arts? What is the place of migration and mobility in the production, circulation and reception of transnational forms of performance? Does being part of a metropolis bring about automatically a cosmopolitan outlook in the arts? How does the absence of such an outlook manifest itself? To what extent can contemporary dance operate as a cosmopolitan category––as a particularly dense site for the circulation and reinvention of forms, meanings and bodies?

Proposing the metropolis as a cultural site, and as a symbolic and choreographic engine, iDANS invites a closer attention to the role of the senses, the mundane particulars, legends and myths in creating the urban charisma that Istanbul is. But, before anything else, the festival seeks to provide a platform for artists to confront their own confrontation of the “other.”

The festival program presents some 41 projects including 5 commissions, 4 co-productions, 9 seminars and 8 workshops by the most challenging players in the field.

Critical Endeavor
Critical Endeavor is an educational workshop program for dance journalists, writers and critics that stems from a European initiative called Jardin d'Europe. It will take place between 18-31st of October 2010 as part of iDANS and it will deal with the questions, concerns, ethics and responsibilities of critical practices in contemporary arts and aims to achieve an informed, yet accessible, discourse on live arts. Internationally acclaimed dance writers, curators and critics will be mentoring the 10 participants of Critical Endeavor.

Prix Jardin d'Europe:
European Dance Prize for Young Choreographers is awarded within the context of iDANS
The "Prix Jardin d'Europe" is the most important project of the "Jardin d'Europe", a network supported by the Culture Programme of the European Commission, developed by its 10 European partners─Ultima Vez (BE), CCN Montpellier (FR), Workshop Foundation (HU), Lokomotiva (MK), Station (RS), Art Link (RO), Cullberg Ballet (SE), Bimeras Cultural Foundation (TR), Southbank Centre (UK), danceWEB (AT). It will be hosted by Bimeras and the "Prix" will be awarded on the 31st of October to a dance production presented in the frame of an Emerging Works Summit. The jury will be comprised of the Critical Endeavor participants.

iKEDi
Giant Cats in an Urban Stroll

iKEDi is a social creativity project developed by Roger Titley and Airan Berg for the 2010 edition of iDANS. Developed for the general framework for iDANS, iKEDi emphasizes cultures of co-existence, pluralism and diversity with particular attention to Istanbul's animals.

South African animation artist and designer Roger Titley who is known for his creatures for cinema and TV—such as the dung beetle and the elephants that marked the opening and closing ceremonies of the recent FIFA World Cup—leads the design and supervises the creation of puppets of Istanbul's endemic animals. Large and small scale puppets will be created in designated neighborhoods with the local residents.

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Phone: +90-212-244 8933
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Different venues, Istanbul

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