Supported by LOOPING and the Culture Program of the European Union, Tanz im August Film Festival,
Berlin, 2009
At the heart of the piece is a 1930 recording of Safiye Ayla performing a Bayati gazel, Yârin bu kadar cevri gelir miydi hayâle, used as a hidden motif throughout. The gazel, both a literary and musical form in Turkish Classical Music, is treated here as a composition: an improvisational sung form rendered as if it could be repeated. hava moves beyond musical performance to explore the relationship between voice, sound, and movement, how their forms act upon each other, and studies air itself as the carrier of both sound and motion.
Premiered at Tanz im August, Berlin on 20 August 2009, hava subsequently toured to Festival Delle Roche (Turin), Question de Danse (Marseille), Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo), İKSV Istanbul Theater Festival, Uzès Danse (France), and Monty/0090 (Antwerp).
hava was created with the support of LOOPING, developed by Uzès Danse CDC in partnership with TanzWerkstatt Berlin and O Espaço do Tempo, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.
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