Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sizanli explore the interactions between the body, balance and the fall, machines and space, space and the body, the body and substance. Their works illustrate, with meticulous precision, systems that have been cobbled together, where movement and energy are decisive, often fun-filled, mechanisms. Taking their inspiration from a visit to a textile plant, here they translate, through movements and sounds, their reflection on industrial production systems. A production that hums and buzzes, “Dokuman” plays on the resonance of the sound on the textile, the texture and the text.

Source : CND (French National Centre for Dance) programme

Updating: 2012

Filiz SIZANLI (1975, Eskisehir) graduated from Istanbul Technical University’s Department of Architecture in 1997. She participated in various projects of Theater Research Laboratory of Istanbul Municipality Theater 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 found 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).

Source : taldans.com

Updated: May 2014

Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).