And... Me

İdea, text and music: Semih Fırıncıoğlu
Voice-over and movement: Sedef Gökçe
Cello: Ayşegül Demir
Assistant of the production: Özgür Doğa Görürgöz
Photographs: Ayten Çelik
Premiere: 19 November 2024, BeReZe Performance House- Istanbul

A modern dance performance that attempts a different approach, where movement is determined by a discernible narrative accompanied by rap music beats. The text, playing with the unique structure and idioms of the Turkish language, points to society's encirclement of the individual with its mostly meaningless and unnecessary rules.

The solo performance "Bir de Ben" (Me Too) is an experimental work prepared to test an unconventional approach: How is dance/movement perceived when accompanied by an understandable and discernible text recording instead of music in the usual way? It was thought that the audience would try to connect the words they heard with the movement they watched, and that the choreography could play with this tendency. The dance was balanced between abstract dance movements and coded gestures from daily life. In ten performances in November 2024, it was concluded that this plan worked and the audience watched both the text and the movement with unusual attention. This experimental work, playing with the unique qualities of Turkish and lasting about 35 minutes, was performed for a limited number of viewers in the basement of Tiyatro BeReZe, which is used as a storage and dressing room, and after each performance, there was a discussion where the audience was asked about their impressions.