14/3/2001
Contemporary Dance Festival
METU, Ankara
This year, the festival will question the role of the choreographer in a contemporary dance performance. In addition to the emergent role of the choreographer as a "coordinator and inventor of the rules that organize interaction of autonomous co-workers' creative energies", (Eda Cufer in En-Knap) the program will also concentrate on non-corporeal aspects of choreography (sound, light, set, and costume) as choreographic elements; on choreography as a design process; and on production.
With the objective of extending the boundaries of contemporary
dance as a dance practice, and as an art form in Turkey, The
Middle East Technical University (METU) Contemporary Dance Festival aims to bringing amateur/professional individuals and
groups who practice contemporary/modern dance in Turkey on a
common platform as well as to provide an opportunity for the
Turkish audience to get in touch with contemporary dance; to show
that contemporary dance could also become an 'everyday thing' like
other art-forms; to share what is already limited on a common
platform: educational knowledge, experience, perspective,
resource.
This year, the festival will question the role of the
choreographer in a contemporary dance performance. In addition to
the emergent role of the choreographer as a "coordinator and
inventor of the rules that organize interaction of autonomous
co-workers' creative energies", (Eda Cufer in En-Knap) the program
will also concentrate on non-corporeal aspects of choreography
(sound, light, set, and costume) as choreographic elements; on
choreography as a design process; and on production.
For more information, send email to
Safak Uysal, METU Contemporary Dance Festival General Coordinator
at Email: dansgunleri@hotmail.com
Ankara, Turkey