iDANS 02 (May 2009): Dance On Time!


The May 2009 edition of iDANS Istanbul International Festival of Contemporary Dance and Performance organized by Bimeras will take place throughout the whole month at multiple venues in Istanbul. Conceived around the vertiginous concept of "Time," the festival will include some 40 works created by artists from 20 countries. This year we also host a parallel program for local artists entitled "Local Time" between May 22-24. The festival will include live and "not-so-live" performances, artists' talks, concerts, publications, and a conference on May 16&17 addressing thematic issues of concern. The festival seeks to combine deep thought and fun, reflection and distraction; to offer a multi-faceted platform for presenting, discussing, sharing and debating dance, culminating each day with our dinners at the festival meeting point!


Theme:

If we follow the sociological proposition that time is a socially constructed category of thought rather than an a priori structure, isn't it time to look at how the believers/players in the field of contemporary dance construct performatively the "contemporaneity" of dance?

What does "temporality" refer to in current practices of the making and researching of dance?

Is temporality a methodological, formal or social question? How does choreography as a specific technology of the body shape the dissolution and accumulation of time through a series of relational, durational, or repetitive acts? Proposing time as a methodological, critical and artistic tool, iDANS aims to present experimentations in the fields of dance, performance and live arts, following its movements, forces and affects across diverse geographical and temporal planes.

iDANS will explore the doing and undoing of time in performance; the supposed fragility of performance due to its ephemerality and the intersections of individual and collective memory in performance. The implications of historiography and documentation in performance will also be interrogated along artistic, philosophical, social scientific and mathematical vectors. Focusing on performing bodies as they cross temporalities and undergo a series of transformations, becomings and intensifications, iDANS grasps time as multiple and heterogeneous; as a sphere of action and politics where artistic experimentations invent and re-invent subjectivities.


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