Aydin Teker

aKabi

Extended with heavy platform shoes of different heights and shapes, the dancers’ bodies are pushed into a rigorous performance on the very limits of their material existence. The emerging hybrid anatomies are unusual, nearly mythological, sometimes grotesque, and always dazzling with their sculptural beauty. As they transform with each different pair of shoes, they shuffle our minds within many contemporary and futuristic issues of human existence.

Turkish choreographer and teacher, Aydin Teker graduated from Ankara State Conservatory in 1973 and joined Ankara State Opera and Ballet as a dancer. In 1976, she received a scholarship and travelled first to London and then to the USA. She received her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. In 1982 she returned to Turkey and started working as modern dance teacher and choreographer at Mimar Sinan University, where she received her Diploma of Adequacy (the equivalent of a doctorate) in 1993. In 1993, she received a Fulbright research scholarship and went to New York again for a year to explore new developments on somatic theories. Her choreographies and site-specific performances have been shown around the world and won many awards. Aydin Teker is currently the head
of the Modern Dance Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul.

Concept and choreography: Aydin Teker
Created together with the dancers:  Serap Meric, Emre Olcay, Ayse Orhon, Sebnem Yüksel; Lighting Design: Jiv Wagner; Costumes: Aysegül Alev;
Shoes: Ahmet Inceel; Music: Manuel Mota, Margarida Garcia;
Co-production: Bimeras (Istanbul), Alkantara (Lisbon),and Spielzeiteuropa|Berliner
Festspiele (Berlin). Photography by Levent Oget

British Premiere
Tramway
Sat 3 March   1930