Workshop / Open Level 
TQW WINTER SCHOOL
Sevi Bayraktar

Diaspora temporalities

Gathering through dispersing
Sevi Bayraktar,

PhD, studied at UCLA and is currently Professor of Dance, Music and Performance in Global Contexts at the Centre for Contemporary Dance at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. Her research intersects dance and performance studies, sociology, and political theory and applies choreographic and ethnographic methods. Her recent contribution, Tanzen/Teilen – Dancing/Sharing, is a co-edited volume published by Transcript (2022).

Diaspora temporalities

Gathering through dispersing
What is the relationship between choreography and diaspora? How does the act of separation also reveal potentials and possibilities for gathering and assembling? Community-learned ways of improvisation show us how peripheralised folk dances can be performed to resist authoritarian states, which also use dance to assert discipline and control over their citizens.

This workshop focuses on circle dances from Turkey’s protest landscape and explores how dance facilitates interconnectivity and trans-local allyships among participants of the choreographic action. It reveals how folk-dance circles, where bodies align equally and horizontally, can manifest and subvert various forms of hierarchies based on abilities, identities, and competencies. We will develop bodily forms of engagement with history and tradition while looking into flexible connections between dance, politics, resistance, and diaspora. No previous dance experience is needed.

Sevi Bayraktar,

PhD, studied at UCLA and is currently Professor of Dance, Music and Performance in Global Contexts at the Centre for Contemporary Dance at the Cologne University of Music and Dance. Her research intersects dance and performance studies, sociology, and political theory and applies choreographic and ethnographic methods. Her recent contribution, Tanzen/Teilen – Dancing/Sharing, is a co-edited volume published by Transcript (2022).

13.01.
Fri
10.00–13.00
13.01.
Fri
10.00–13.00
TQW Studios
Participation is free of charge, registration required

In English

Limited number of participants

 

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