DATE AND VENUE
22.05.2010, 19.00, Galata Ana Sahne
RemDans Project Company
- Art Direction and Choreography: Tuğçe Tuna
RemDans Project Company, which had previously staged Machine Body, Thinking Phobia, Vertigo/o.4 in previous International İstanbul Theatre Festivals and which has courageously expressed new perspectives of the discipline, participates in the 17th International İstanbul Theatre Festival with an interdisciplinary outdoor project, conceptualised and choreographed by Tuğçe Tuna.
Wet Volume refers to the volume in a "space" filled with water. Tuğçe Tuna takes both the architectural space and the body as "wet volume" and elaborates on human’s emotional states, such as happiness, servitude, shame, passion, desire, surprise, and fear.
"... It was the densest corridor I felt in my life I look at the floors, freedom in broken walls, fear that I cannot perceive, and evil I am ashamed of, I listen to the voices coming from beneath my feet, my throat, my heart. Memories, used pillows, faucets, dreams in the air try to enter into my body and take over my mind Walls, frames, glasses on the floor as if frozen in my body... If I move too quickly, the water inside me will cut me, too... As I walk, they watch me... What happened to make life as such? From the space I pass through, I arrived at an emptiness in which I breathe, smile... This here is the starting point..."
Tuğçe Tuna, Old Bayrampaşa Penitentiary, 2010
RemDans Project Company
"The last stage of sleep is REM, the real sleeping stage when one dreams. The scarcity of REM, which also means clarifying of the brain, can lead to cognitive, memory, and perception disorders." RemDans Project Company was found by the dancer, choreographer, and instructor Tuğçe Tuna in 2001, and continues as the interdisciplinary contemporary dance-performance group.
Tuna formed the RemDans Studio in 2009, and prefers different representational forms required by the enactment of her projects, such as the outdoor space use, research disciplines, and prefers to stay open to all types of "body, idea, space" perspectives while considering the body as "the space in which one lives and practices her own politics".
