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Solum

CN D - Centre national de la danse 2005 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

Choreographer(s) : Sizanli, Filiz (Turkey)

Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances

Video producer : Centre national de la danse

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

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Solum

CN D - Centre national de la danse 2005 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

Choreographer(s) : Sizanli, Filiz (Turkey)

Present in collection(s): Centre national de la danse , CN D - Spectacles et performances

Video producer : Centre national de la danse

Integral video available at CND de Pantin

en fr

Solum

In spite of a ten-year age gap, Mustafa Kaplan and Filiz Sizanli form a long-lasting partnership which is a benchmark in Istanbul's choreographic community. By 2005 they had already created and performed five pieces together in ten years. Seen abroad, “Dolap” (a trio where the third member is… a huge refrigerator) and “Sek Sek” are emblematic of the renaissance in Turkish choreography. It was quite something to see them return to the solo in a new piece unveiled during Instanbul Danse at the Centre National de la Danse, Pantin. A great deal of curiosity was aroused when their respective work, developed by each of them quite separately, often thousands of kilometres apart, was nevertheless integrated into the one piece. This was a compositional challenge and it is called “Solum”, which in Latin means alone or only, but also the floor or ground. “The body is the floor. My body is the ground,” the two artists state by way of epigraph. They tackle the questions: “How far from the body does movement take place, and what lies between the two? Can I lie with my body? Can I suffer with my body? Can I destroy it? What are the deficiencies, disappointments and pretentions of the body?”

Filiz Sizanli is particularly interested in the relationship between truth and falsehood. She is inspired by thinking in the plastic arts, between the real and the imaginary. She has gone way beyond studio rehearsals to work out what a false movement might be, an illusion drawn out by perspective, a loss of the body swallowed up by the space. What truth of the body remains in the falseness of a situation one has to maintain?

Mustapha Kaplan, on his side, subjected himself to constraints, bonds and deformations of appearance to explore that which he could inflict upon himself as a child, which hurt and produced extreme sensations. It would be a deepening of his long-term approach to the body as a field of exploration, involving it in repetitive tasks and the distortion of actions such as running, leaps, lying down, where the basic principles of free-fall, collision and acceptance of gravity are put to the test in highly-physical, even risky exercises. In what he calls a “drama of energy”, his practical application and stressing of the notion of body-surface evolves towards an image of the body as a political entity.

Gérard Mayen 

Updating: April 2010

Sizanli, Filiz

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

Centre national de la danse, Réalisation

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.).

Taldans

Générique

Choreography : Filiz Sizanli

Interpretation : Filiz Sizanli

Production / Coproduction of the video work : Centre national de la danse

Duration : 55 minutes

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