HarS
14/10/2008
, 
21:30
15/10/2008
, 21:00
Direction, choreography Aydin Teker
Choreography, performance Ayse Orhon
Musical advice Evrim Demirel
Light design Thomas Walgrave
Costume design Aysegul Alev
Production Bimeras iDans (Istanbul)
Coproduction Alkantara (Lisbon), Biennale Bonn (Bonn), Baltoscandal Festival (Rakvere), Rotterdamse Schouwburg (Rotterdam), KunstenFESTIVALdesarts (Brussels), Festival Culturescapes (Basel) e NXT STP
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union
NATIONAL PREMIERE
length 50'
The choreographer Aydın Teker, pioneer of contemporary dance in Turkey, with Hars carries on her research on body extension. The performance, created with the harpist and dancer Ayşe Orhon, puts in a close relationship the performer body and a harp, originating unespected relationships and new shapes.
Aydin Teker is able to deconstruct the powerfull meaning of the harp to make its aesthetics prevail far from the traditional concept of it.
The performer and the harp are collocated on the stage as an installation. These two different entities inglobe themselves until they turn into a sort of a single sculpture able to create images of chimerical beauty. The conventional image of the harp as a static and two-dimensional object is overwhelmed by the shift of its plane towards a tridimentional context . Body, in its malleability, becomes an extension of the harp, filling its voids in the space, upsetting its robustness.
The harp provides a territory for the performer. The spectator contemplates a virtuous relationship between srength and control minutely calculated. The hallucinatory symbiosis between the two with the asymmetric articulation of the harp’s movement, gives birth to spectral images of fantastic creatures.
