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© Joerg Letz Born in Brussels and based in Germany, Michael Maurissens produces works both as a dancer/choreographer and as a director focusing especially on dance films.  Maurissens   who came to Istanbul for 3 months through the German Cultural Fund, also carries out various joint studies in Turkey with the Goethe Institute and Kulturakademie Tarabya. Continuing his productions as a producer, cameraman and editor in the field of film, Maurissens' documentary film The Body as Archive , which focuses on the body as an archive and the memory storage and processing mechanisms of the body, and also explores different ways of archiving especially in the field of performing arts, screened at Zone60 Atelier on June 7th and  at Kadir Has University on June 9th . Maurissens also held a dance-film workshop in Duende with the support of Kunststiftung NRW between June 8th-11th.  We asked questions for you to Maurissens, whom we hosted in our conversation in ten question series....

Korean dancer/choreographer Sung-Im Her graduated from the famous P.A.R.T.S. dance school and later worked with important dance companies such as Les ballets C. de la B. and Needcompany. NUTCRUSHER, choreographed by Sung-Im Her questions the objectification of women, the relationships we establish with our bodies, and how the body is represented, with repetitive gestures and an energetic language of movement, taking the influence of the #metoo and #timesup movements in the background in South Korea. NUTCRUSHER will take place at Alan Kadıköy on June 5-6, 2023, as part of the 2022-2023 seasonal shows of the Istanbul Fringe Festival with the support of the British Council. On this occasion we interviewed Sung-Im Her. What is the essence of performance in your opinion? We are doing live performance and there is uniqueness to it. We breathe and feel together in the same place, same moment, with no phone, no internet, no digital. For me, that is the core part of live performance and I reall...