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Posts tagged ‘Filiz Sızanlı’

Oct 31

Thought Works

Nóra Bükki Gálla

The architect’s eye looks for the mechanism that makes things work, the structure behind the form. In a performance that connects theory and abstraction with the reality of the stage, Filiz Sizanli attempts to show us how the conventional usage of stage space can be challenged, while playing with the interchangeability of dimensions. Drawing a parallel between dynamism and stability, science and art, we find new ways to explore, analyze and describe motion.

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Oct 30

Body Architecture

Martina Rösler

How do we position our own body to the constructed architecture that surrounds us? Why do we consider some structures, objects, environments as hospitable and others as inhospitable?
The Turkish dancer and choreographer Filiz Sızanlı invites the audience in her new solo Site to a white cube, where she examines the relationship between architecture and power. Surrounded by thin white fabric walls that are open to the audience her body is already part of the stage design. The first movement sequence follows the principle of constantly looking up to the ceiling. Her head disappears, we just see her throat and chin, her body looks distorted. Starting with small finger and arm movement she slowly gets up from a sitting position and starts to move through space. Something weird is going on in her body, as if she was unable to walk “normally”. Suddenly also sounds are coming out of her. She repeats the vocal ”A” and sends it up like air bubbles. The vocal utterances slowly transform to words. Sızanlı is talking very quietly, sometimes just moving her lips, we can just pick up some fragments of Turkish language. She is now lying on the side of her body with bend legs, facing the audience, pretending that she is sitting on a chair. The dimensions of space start to drift apart, an imaginary space opens up denying reality. Read more

Oct 30

Architecture, Power and Coolness of Inscrutability (Or Just Another Try at Sexy Titles)

Eylül Akıncı

A “dreamscape” created with paravane-like white curtains and ground lighting, with a kneeling woman and a pillow-like stand in it… It is impossible not to be impressed by the stage design of Filiz Sızanlı’s solo work Site. The title of her performance already promises an attentive gaze and inquiry about landscapes, which is also convenient when you think of her professional field, architecture. However the performance in itself seems unable to fulfill this attempt, falling prey to unreadable conceptuality. Read more

Nov 11

Dokuman’ın Dökümü

Yarattığı ambians açısından sürekli kurulması gereken antika bir saatle Atari neslinden kalan düşük teknolojili bir oyun arasında gidip gelen Dokuman, formların işlevler tarafından belirlendiği modüler sahne yapısında ve oluşturduğu geçişken evrenlerde araç ve araçsallığı yeniden tanımlıyor.

Mustafa Kaplan ve Filiz Sızanlı (Taldans) yönetiminde yoğun bir işbirliği süreciyle yaratılan Dokuman, görünen ve hayal edilene; işlevsel ve işletimsel olana; ses ve söze dair birbirlerine kolaylıkla dönüşebilen örüntüler sunuyor. Dikiş izlerini sözde belli etmeyen bir sistemde oluşan delik, çatlak ve benzeri defolardan nereye akılacağına dair flörtöz bir beklentiyi davet ediyor; zaman içerisinde bir yırtık olarak beliriyor… Read more