DATE AND VENUE
24.11.2017, 20.30
25.11.2017, 13.00
MSGSÜ Bomonti Yerleşkesi Çağdaş Dans ASD
Lasts app. 45’; no intermission.
- Concept, Choreography & Performance: Canan Yücel Pekiçten
- Sound Design: Etem Kaplan
- Video Design: Metin Çavuş
- Light Design: Utku Kara
- Camera: Canan Yücel Pekiçten, Soetkin Verstegen
- Thanks to: Kone Foundation, The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, MSGSÜ
Contemporary dance artist Canan Yücel Pekiçten opens for the audience the doors of three women’s hearts as she brings her unconventional take on three female characters from three different operas to the stage. The Queen of Der Zwerg Lied, Cio-Cio-San of Madame Butterfly, and the title character from the first opera written in Finnish, Pohjan Neito, are given new life through her female-centric performance. With these three solo pieces we will witness the metamorphosis of three female characters that were created by a sexist point of view.
CONCEPT, CHOREOGRAPHY & PERFORMANCE Canan Yücel Pekiçten, a dance Artist, choreographer and a lecturer based in Istanbul, completed a BFA in Dance with honor degree at Yıldız Technical University in Istanbul (2011) and studied dance at Folkwang University in Essen, Germany for one semester (2010-2011). She received an MFA in Dance from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul (2015). She is currently doing her doctorate/proficiency in art in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University’s Dance Programme and working as a lecturer in Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory Contemporary Dance Department and Yeni Yüzyıl University Theatre Department. Artist also has a BA in Law from Marmara University Faculty of Law. Besides working with local and foreign choreographers as a dancer, Canan Yücel Pekiçten has been creating her own pieces. She participated in the Utrecht Spring Dance Festival with her piece “My Motto”. Her own piece, "It’s OK!", premiered in the 19th Istanbul Theatre Festival and later performed in Vilnius, Lithuania and Poland. The short piece of the artist called “Der Zwerg/The Dwarf” was performed in the 8th Gdansk Dance Festival in Poland and was awarded first prize by the jury. "All about the Heart", the last piece of the artist is premiering in Gothenburg, Sweden in September 2017 and is being presented in New York in October 2017. Her work is supported so far by Jardin d’Europe, Europe in Motion, Workshop Foundation (HU), The Swedish Arts Grants Committee and Kone Foundation (Finland). In 2017 she has been selected as Cec ArtsLink Fellow and granted a residency in Movement Research, New York.
