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© Richard Terborg  6th Istanbul Fringe Festival's international guest Sanne van Dijk is a puppeteer and storyteller based in Amsterdam. Sanne graduated in acting from the Theatre Academy in Amsterdam in 2006 and also studied puppetry at the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in Berlin. Sanne played the main character in the sci-fi film Gliese 581 , which was selected for the 2015 Imagine Film Festival, and was nominated for the International EMMY Children's Awards 2020 for the TV production Dropje (Doopie) , in which she played the main character as a puppeteer. In her work, Sanne draws on her own life experiences to reveal universal truths that transcend different cultures and societies. By daring to speak honestly about her own struggles and challenges in life, Sanne provokes the audience to confront their own struggles. In her interdisciplinary work VLOED (FLOOD) , which we had the opportunity to see at the Istanbul Fringe Festival, Sanne combined acting, puppetry

The 6th Istanbul Fringe Festival's international guest choreographer, dancer and founder of Compagnie Entity, French-American Thibaut Eiferman completed his classical training at the American Ballet Theatre School in New York and danced with Ballet BC (Vancouver, Canada), Ate9 Dance Company (Los Angeles, USA) and Batsheva Dance Company (Tel Aviv, Israel). Currently dancing in Christian François Ben Aïm Company's Facéties and Oona Doherty/OD Works' Navy Blue , Eiferman created her first choreography HHH in 2018. The short version of HHH won first prize at the Jerusalem Machol Shalem International Choreography Competition in 2018 and the Critics' Prize at the Hannover Choreography Competition in 2019, and was selected for the 2020 edition of the Danse Élargie competition for young choreographers organised by the Paris Theatre de la Ville. HHH (Hand, Heart, Head) , the long version of which we had the opportunity to see at this year's Istanbul Fringe Festival, is de

We interviewed with Katsumi Sakakura, the creator of the show The Life of HOKUSAI, which will be the guest of the 6th Istanbul Fringe Festival, which will be held between 13-21 September 2024 this year. It will be staged at ENKA Auditorium on 17 September 2024 in collaboration with ENKA Arts and Istanbul Fringe Festival 2024 on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Turkey. The show's creator, Katsumi Sakakura (1963), himself a composer, director, choreographer and actor, is, as you might expect, a multi-talented artist. Sakakura, who started karate at the age of five and boxing at university, has created a performance art called Geibu, based on the unique "movement, rhythm and spirituality" of the traditional Japanese martial art Budo. He also created Street Nunchaku by combining Nunchaku, a defensive art he learnt alongside karate, with the hip hop dance moves he began performing in his twenties. He then dev

Waiting for MACBETTU , July, 13rd 2024, Teatro Lirico di Cagliari-Sardinia ©  Mehmet Kerem Özel In the middle of summer, with the humid heat of July raging everywhere, I set off for a weekend in Cagliari, the capital of the island of Sardinia in the middle of the Mediterranean. My aim was to see a show that, since its premiere in March 2017, has had 350 performances around the world in seven years, from Peru to Japan, from Finland to China, from Azerbaijan to Bosnia-Herzegovina, from Russia to Brazil, as well as many cities in its home island of Sardinia and its home country of Italy. This show was MACBETTU, long after its last performance in 2022, returning from a one and a half month, four-stop tour of the Far East, and after many years in its own city for a single performance on 13 July 2024. Inspired by the carnival traditions of the island of Sardinia and translated into Limba, the local language of the island (the translation belongs to Giovanni Carroni, one of the actors in the

La Ruta  © Rahi Rezvani, NDT 1 Gabriela Carrizo and Frank Chartier, founders of the Peeping Tom dance company, have been working separately again for the past two seasons, following Kind in 2019, which they created together long after A louer in 2011. In 2022, Carrizo created her second choreography, La Ruta , with NDT 1 dancers. In 2023 Chartier created a piece for the duo's own company, S 62° 58', W 60° 39' .  La Ruta was on NDT 1's programme in 2022-23 and the current 2023-24 season, while S 62° 58', W 60° 39' continues its world tour. For those familiar with the work of Peeping Tom, neither Carrizo's La Ruta nor Chartier's S 62° 58', W 60° 39' begins surprisingly or unexpectedly. In La Ruta , which lasts about 30 minutes, Carrizo has transferred the eerie and creepy atmosphere she created indoors (in the cabin of a cruise ship) in The Missing Door , which she had previously worked on with NDT 1, to outdoors, on and around a road, an asp

Waiting  (Onassis Stegi, Athens, 21 April 2024,  © Mehmet Kerem Ozel ) In November 2019, I saw the world premiere of Euripides Laskaridis' Elenit by coincidence; I was in Athens for the last performances of Dimitris Papaioannou's The Great Tamer tour, I had an evening free, I gave Elenit a chance at Onassis Stegi, I did not regret it. I enjoyed Elenit , I laughed, I had fun, I especially admired the grotesque and ridiculous character of Marie Antoinette versus Madonna, played by Laskaridis himself. At that time, I wrote an impression article about the piece here .  In November 2022 Laskaridis was a guest at the Istanbul Theatre Festival with Titans , the second part of his trilogy of which Elenit is the last.  On a rainy evening when Laskaridis first arrived in Istanbul, he took the metro from Mecidiyeköy to Tepebaşı and met Ayşe Draz, my friend Emre and me at the Georgian restaurant Fıccın, where we had dinner and thus met face to face.  I found Titans , which is a duo piec