Devinen Ritüeller ("Moving Rituals")

Performance: Devinen Ritüeller ("Moving Rituals")
Location: İTÜ TMDK Turkish Folk Dance Departement
Date: 27-29 April 2013 World Dance Day Celebration
Art Director: Prof. Nihal Cömert
Art Consultant: Ör. gör. Salim Sinar
Choreography / Dancer: Hilal Özcan

This representation is a collage study in which the traditional rhythms, physical play, melody, story elements that compose traditional dances in Anatolia, and some current percussive dance approaches in the world are blended. The performance shows how dance and music are constantly in dialogue with each other just like in the dance performances in the Günther-Schule, in which they used percussion instruments and recorders to enhance the accentuation of the dance. Posture and playing technique of these instruments interrelate directly with the body, dancers and musicians can therefore be the same person. (Cp. Yaprak Kotzian, Emine, Orff-Schulwerk Handbook Principles of Elemental Music and Movement Pedagogy, p. 16-20, Schott Mainz, 2019)