Pursuit of Trace
Tuğçe Tuna

Dance

March 1, 2018 / 20:00

Pera Museum’s dance performance, Pursuit of Trace, is presented on both exhibition floors as part of Look At Me! Portraits and Other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection exhibition.

Conceptualized and choreographed by Tuğçe Tuna, Pursuit of Trace is a call to track the body and the symptoms it manifests, to be aware of the traces on the body, to talk to your body through the other body, to hear the body, to sense the movement behind the trace by erasing your own print. In Pursuit of Trace, Tuna develops a unique sequence in choreography that invites the audience to an exchange, which allows them to view themselves through the eyes of the other, and smilingly says, “Hey snail, no one can leave a trace like you in your own life”.

Concept and Choreography: Tuğçe Tuna
Dance Artists: Ekin Ançel, Pınar Akyüz, Aybike İpekçi, Yoseob Kim, Lale Madenoğlu, Hilal Sibel Pekel, Canan Yücel Pekiçten,
Sinan Özer, Tuğçe Ulugün Tuna, Ezgi Yaren Karademir.
4th.Floor Music: Ah Kosmos!

Schedule
6 February Tuesday      18:00, 19:30
13 February Tuesday    18:00, 19:30
20 February Tuesday    18:00, 19:30
27 February Tuesday    18:00, 19:30
1 March Thursday         18:30, 20:00
 

The performance “Pursuit of Trace” will take place on the “Look At Me! Portraits and Other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection” exhibition floors. The performance takes 50 minutes, and it’s not suitable for kids aged below 12. The exhibition floors will be closed to the public during performance.

Places are limited. Admission 10 TL. Tickets can be purchased on Biletix. Sales at the Museum will begin on the day of the performance.

Tuğçe Tuna
She is a choreographer, dancer and academician. Building her communication with existence on the body, movement and dance, the artist started her dance career in 1983 with Ankara State Opera and Ballet Children’s Ballet. In 1996 she graduated from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (MSGSU) State Conservatory with honors degree as top of Performance Arts Department and second in her class. Since 1993 she has been actively participating in national and international festivals, events and academia with her interdisciplinary modern dance and performance arts work and modern dance and contemporary movement techniques skills teaching, and works as a dancer and performance artist, choreographer, director, art director, and movement and dance therapist. Tuna began her academic teaching career in 1996 at MSGSU Modern Dance Art Department, and since 2000 she has been teaching and staging her shows in various parts of Europe including  Salzburg (SEAD 2002-2014), Vienna, Cologne, Berlin, Essen, Stuttgart, Stralsund, Paris, Angers, Lublin, Prague, Slovenia, Israel and Greece.

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