conversations in ten questions 7 : Begüm Erciyas - Voicing Pieces
In this series of interviews we try to get to know the directors/choreographers who will be the international guests at the 23rd Istanbul Theatre Festival in November 2019. Our seventh guest is Begüm Erciyas. Ayse Draz & Mehmet Kerem Ozel Art Unlimited Performing Arts Editor & Writer [The Turkish translation of this interview is published and can be accessed on art.unlimited ] Begüm Erciyas (Photo: Bea Borgers) What is the spirit of dance in your opinion? How do you define contemporary dance today? I'm confused about this like everybody else. Many of us now create works beyond disciplinary traditions. Stage works that are not based on text or textual narrative as in theatre but structured by alternative compositional choices and based on a dramaturgy of affect might be called dance or music theater in Europe even if they do not contain dance or music in the sense we are used to. I personally oscillate between calling my work dance and not. I've studied co...