• Concept, Choreography, Text Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna
• Sound Design Metin Kalaç, Ceren Gürol, Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna (supported by AI)
• Soloist Maria Pissa
• Piano Accompaniment Önder Cebeci
• Piano Serdar Yekta Elmas
• Music Lal Tuna (... Not Until the Innocence Lost is Found, 2024)
• Lighting Design Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna, Umut Rışvanlı
• Speaker Design Vahit Tuna (Psişel Sergi, 2017)
• Catalogue Photograph Yasmin Ergün
• Dance Artists Diren Ezgi Yıldızkan, Diana İzel Koç, Ekin Can Yılmaz, Furkan Yılmaz, Gizem Seçkin, Hilal Sibel Pekel, Halil İbrahim Aygün, İlayda İpekçi, Pınar Akyüz, Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna, Umut Özdaloğlu

Lasts approx. 70’ sürer w/o interval

Age Recommendation: 13+

"Mobility saves lives. Dance, however, saves existence. I placed a breath between ‘being’ and ‘becoming’ so that they could look at each other..." – Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna

Dance is a medium – for being, renewal, and letting go. It’s for consuming, cleansing, resisting, healing memory, appearing in the silence of the universe, reflecting the gentleness of fragility, and, at times, celebrating life. Dance Plague builds bridges from light to understand darkness, and from the body to grasp the fractures of human nature. We surrender ourselves to infinity from the edge of dance, sharing our kinesthetic temperament. In doing so, we become the dance.

In 2023, Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna – one of the leading figures in contemporary dance in Türkiye, a choreographer, dance and performance artist, and academic – celebrated her 30th year in the arts. Tuna continues her work both in Türkiye and internationally, and has been a frequent guest of the Istanbul Theatre Festival for the past 20 years. Her work Displacement, which premiered at the festival in 2012, won the Jury Award at the Arena Festival in Germany. The Worst Job, first performed at the 2016 festival, was honoured by TMMOB. The festival also staged The Cherry Orchard by Kocaeli City Theatres, directed by Mehmet Birkiye, earning Tuna the Best Choreography of the Year award at the 2022 Afife Theatre Awards.

My deepest gratitude to Mert Siliv Productions, Arter Management and Arter Karbon technical team, Emir Rehman and Berkin Berber for their percussion instrument accompaniment, ENC Music Studio and the creative dance artists who embodied my impulses and ideas.