Sahman-Grenze-Kuş

Jasmin İhraç

The solo dance piece Sahman-Grenze-Kuş deals with my experiences in the ruins of Ani located at the border of Armenia and Turkey. It explores the historical impact of the landscape, referring to themes of border, tradition, traces and the transmission of memory. Through the play with different layers of presence and the combination of live performance with film material, the work intends to establish a dialogue between different media, temporalities and places.

Idea/Choreography/Dance Jasmin İhraç
Camera Leyla Cömert, Yusuf Emre Yalçın
Editing Noam Gorbat
Sound Jan Brauer, Matija Vojvodić
Music 'Denge' by Zeynep Gedizlioğlu
Piano Nare Karoyan
Artistic Advice Ayşe Orhon
Text Taniel Varoujan
Projection/Lighting Natalia Sookias, Noam Gorbat, Catalina Fernández, Turan Tayar, Josephine Freiberg
Photos Leyla Cömert, Meike Denker, Jasmin İhraç, Natalia Sookias, Nicolas Beck, Dimitris Alexakis, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Josephine Freiberg, Kadir Yeniaras, Ute Langkafel Maifoto, Nar Photos
Premiere Dusseldorf, 3rd November, 2017, Galerie Kunst und Denker Contemporary

With the support of Kunststiftung NRW and Goethe Institute.
Part of the research for this production was developed in 2017 in the frame of the project "Unacknowledged Loss" directed by Barbara Raes a project of HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Supported in the frame of Bündnis internationaler Produktionshäuser von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.

With special thanks to Ricardo Carmona, Nevzat İhraç, Julien Devaux, Nigol Bezjian, Erhan Arık, Krikor Moskofian and Quin Manassian

Performances
Premiere: Dusseldorf, Galerie Kunst und Denker Contemporary, November, 3, 2017
Athens, Polychoros KET, November, 28-29 2017
Marseille, La Zouze-Christophe Haleb (Festival DANSEM), Dezember, 14-15, 2017
Ankara, Goethe Institut, December, 19, 2017
Berlin, Uferstudios, February, 24, 2018
Berlin, Gorki Theater, April, 21, 2018
Istanbul, Kulturakademie Tarabya, June, 30, 2018
Marrakesh, ESAV, Festival On Marche, March, 14, 2019
Berlin, Bethanien, Studio 1, Studio Bosporus, October, 15, 2021