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ilyas odman
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At the turn of the millennium, after the entrance of young choreographers educated in different disciplines other than dance, and after the increasing interest of EU cultural managers to the “new” Turkish contemporary dance, a new problem emerged: Identity. All of us have struggled to answer the question of ‘who am I?’ or ‘who are we?’ in different words and accents.
My work’s basic concepts are ‘body attachments’ and ‘physical awareness born from a physical threat’. All of our identities, self-defined, are attachments imposed onto our ‘pure’ body. My works discuss the possibility or impossibility of the existence of a ‘nude body’. In order to achieve this, the body is been pushed to extreme physical risks. The ‘identity’ develops from this risk and the body who is under the pressure of this risk. This apprehension can be seen as a ‘political’ resistance against the modernist/western approach that regards the ‘intellectual experience’ more determining than ‘physical experience’. Identity occurs after personal physical experience and disappears into another ‘identity’… My pieces show that it is impossible to see just one ‘identity’ and a ‘nude’ body. Performers in my pieces are just against one threat, to be themselves and to be as much/less they are.
Artists are new definers of their culture. My approach is different from my coeval artists. The ‘identity’ definitions and expectations of other cultures are out of my interest. My basic aim remains to achieve a ‘pure nudity’ whereby the tension of each piece comes from this struggle and impossibility. As all this happen… the body continues to change and change.
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