choreography, concept İlyas Odman
dance İlyas Odman
music design Bahadır Dilbaz
light design Aytuğ Civan
dramaturgy Alexandre Abellan, Hanna Koriech
costume design Irmak Arkman
photos Pınar İlkiz

run time 30’

Tired
  İlyas Odman (Turkey)

The solo is a physical manifestation of the journey of Gregor Samsa through dance. The intention is to demonstrate physicality and the senses as a means without certainty, structure or expectation. While humans may continually crave for ‘certainty’, leading to a degree of security, it can never be reached, allowing a compromise towards acceptance. The new body of Gregor Samsa, seen through the dancer, is one that has a lot of history and social expectations, but instead chooses to look to the future with optimism and rejects unproductive nostalgia. The dancer also blessedly gazes into the potential of the future, and develops and transforms him/herself into a unique individual through creating movement, not dance. A movement that allows him to be self-critical, and to be able to smile and safely ask: what is physicality, what is beauty?

“from the concept-notes”

İlyas Odman began to dance at METU Dance Theatre at 1998 and has been the choreographer, trainer between the years 2000-2002. At the same year, he began to attend the Classic Ballet and Modern Dance classes at Ankara State Opera and Ballet’s Modern Dance Turkey. At 1999, he had been chosen by Bürge Öztürk, choreographer at Modern Dance Turkey, for her research project, and worked three years long as her dancer and student. During this process, he joined to every class at Modern Dance Turkey and took part at some repertoire-pieces of the company. Alparslan Karaduman, Bürge Öztürk, Paul Clayden, Jan Pusch, Chevy Muraday, Dilek Dervişoğlu, Stephanie Parent, Martin Sonderkamp, Talin Büyükkürkçiyan, Rubato, Alexandre Abellan are some choreographers, in whose pieces he took part. At 2001, he established “underNine dance and movement project”. Three years after the establishment of the company, it has been known as one of the most important modern dance companies of Turkey in the local press. With the company he performed in METU Contemporary Dance Festival, Ankara State Opera and Ballett Dance Platform Turkey, Semaver Kumpanya, Maya Stage, Roxy, GalataPerform 8, Ankara Theatre Festival, KargART, Bodrum Church Eklisia, Balkan Dance festival-Skopje. At 2004, he began to work as cultural manager of KargART.