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DANCE THEATER PEOPLE
.......................................................................................................... Gözde Çerçioğlu
No other Kaya (Rock Stone) would be alive as
much as this.
Could breathe as deep as this...
Its name was Kaya (Rock Stone) but there was a
smile on its face. Its lips filled with a charm that
will last forever.
None of us knew that the last days of July and the
first days of August in 2003 summer would turn
into a sweet breeze for us, which would wave
for months. All of us, without having any idea of
the existence of each other, gathered only under
seven colours but we created a lot more colours
together than a colour palette could manage.
Maybe because we discovered each other. At
the incredible taste of stuffed peppers (biberli
dolma), at our legs tired of dancing, our neverending
smile still shining despite all the dust we
covered in...We discovered each other with our
eyes. With our eyes thanks to which we looked
through our hearts.
Dance was just an innocent excuse; we let our hearts to dance. The rainbow
couldn’t help herself as well, she started to move. She reached the sky and
put us above the sky. All the wishes we made under the Rainbow, twinkled one
after another and turned into stars, by shedding their light on our night. Our
laughter under the grapevine leaves smeared onto the grapes. It made a unique
taste, nowhere to be found, never to end.
As I told you, Kaya has never breathed as deep as this…
Deep, fresh, forever with all of us inside...
DANCE THEATRE WORKSHOP
.......................................................................................................... Vasiliki Antonaki
(Participant in Dance Theatre workshop of
KayaFest and Theatre of The Oppressed in Final Conference)
Athens 11-07-2004
Capability of leaders (G.Peckan, T. Myrkou):
Maximum! Most of the participants had never
danced before. We managed to perform a
complex performance in a five-day time! Despite
difficulties in the language, true artists can speak
body and heart language.
Time was effectively used until the last second.
We all felt that not even one minute of our
workshop got lost. As for the workshop hour it
should be shorter (not six hours a day for amateurs
for the specific kind of workshop that demands
both physical and mental strength) because as
a result we could not be able to participate in
other activities either because of being tired or
due to lack of time. I consider the length of the
workshop to be the most suitable in order not to
get bored, tired or lose interest but also enough
to gain and succeed aims.
The amount of materials and equipment given to us was sufficient: materials
for our performance, microphones and sound systems or fruit from the staff.
Place of rehearsals and performance: place of rehearsals was satisfactory and
problems that came up, such as no cool place to exercise were immediately
solved by the competent staff. As for the performance stage and conditions of
it, the performance was a bit delayed and a more stable stage was needed.
Also the ground and dust around the stage was not the best thing to be done.
In general all the aims of the workshop were achieved to the highest level of
my expectations. Our performance had (for us first of all) the biggest success
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