Concept and Moderator:Candas Bas
Choreography and dramaturgy:Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi and C dans C
Music director:Baris K
Light design:Cem Yilmazer

Engin-Ar is the latest outcome from Ciplak Ayaklar’s collaboration with C dans C, a French group combining hip-hop with modern dance.The piece is a 3 year old dream come true thanks to the amazing collaboration that we had,thanks to the support of French Consulate and all my friends of Ciplak Ayaklar…

This blend in which eight dancers will contribute with their bodies and senses is called “a variation of love,relationship and balances in spite of taboos,obstacles,honor,religions,languages,races”..Let’s see where this variation will take them in their journey?A group of eight people…Eight different souls,eight different bodies,a relationship in folds of eight…To snap a big slice from life…To become a whole leaf…To exist in its own existence…

Written and Directed by Kerem Kurdoglu
Choreography by Candas Bas
Music by Imre Hadi
Costumes And Stage Design by Naz Erayda

�If the fictional idea behind The Trial by Kafka occurred to a playwright living in Istanbul today, and if he/she wrote a play around that concept, what would that play be like?� Writer-director Kerem Kurdoglu has re-written The Trial, in search of the answer to this very question. It is difficult to define the outcome as �Kafkaesque�; on the contrary, it is a colourful tale of �falling from heights� wrapped up in the shiny, glossy coat of the world of entertainment. A show where music, choreography and spectacle claim center-stage… Welcome to an entertaining Kafka musical!

set and costume scetches by Naz Erayda

A new choreography of Charles Cre-Ange for Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi…Lovely to move with the whole company again…

photo by Muhsin Akgun

Choreography for the Turkish version of the famous Broadway musical by Tiyatro Candela @ Bilgi University.Second collaboration with the Candela team after Hair…Such a pleisure to work with them..Vive la vie boheme…

Orta Anadolu has produced 6 short movies for it’s new campaign.The films are directed by Cynthia Madensky and choreographied by Candas Bas and Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi.It was a great opportunity to work in amazing place such as Kasimpasa Shipyard which has been evacuated back in the 1980’s.Here are some photos of Ozgur Baykal from the shootings…

Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi has a new studio in Bogazkesen which has been renovated by the company dancers since august.The place is going to serve as rehearsal studio,performance center and residency for the artists in collaboration.This dream come true , still needs to have a dance floor,mirrors and air conditions for being in use.The company is already rehearsing it’s new piece and still searching for sponsorship and funds.We thank all our supporters who were there for us,who took us here to create our dream…

Choreography for Puma’s boogie night @ discorium…Puma’s new collection was presented on stage,fashion show with dancers…Music journey by Baris K…We danced all night…

solo

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Concept and installation by Mihran Tomasyan

Performed by Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi…

How did we get to that point of no return…How did we get used to people getting lost, getting killed everyday…How did we accept it…Where were we..Where are they…..Where were we…Where are they…..

“Istanbul Dance Festival 2007″
10 days of Turkish contemporary dance,technical classes,workshops,meetings,improvisation sessions and guests..A chance to feed your soul with movement…Mihran’s dream came true thanks to “garajistanbul”, “Dans Bulusma”, “Cati”, “Institut Francais d’Istanbul”
..When the body starts to remember….

8 march M.E.T.U festival contemporary dance days
28 march kenter tiyatrosu

29.04.2007 Kelimeler ,Izmir Sanat Salonu 20.30
30.04.2007 Mehmet Baris’i seviyor ,Ege Sanat Tiyatro Evi 20.30

“Kelimeler-Words” is a mixture of different works of the dancers of the company,looking to the world with different angles from the same point,talking about their own journeys,different paths they took…”Words” is not trying to become a phrase or a story but we might say that they are just words
“Euphoria”, my new solo will be premiered in Izmir.It’s a work in progress and i hope it will stay so….Music is from Yungchen Lhamo,a voice from Tibet.I just fallow this voice…Happiness is…..

Ciplak ayaklar improvises with Gevende against gentrification…
24 march 13.00 sulukule

17-27 march 2007
kargart

an installation called “lucid dreaming”

when you dream,you sometimes remember
when you wake,you always forget..

absolut party and fashion show choreography…

absolute party!

a few shots from the night. photographer t.b.a.

Solo

Consept and choreography: Candas Bas
Music: Plastikman
Light design: Cem Yilmazer
Premiered at “Les Floraisons de Botanique” (Brussels)

“Festival Internaçionale de dansa contemporena” (Portugal)
.Regiao Sul1 Regiao Sul2
“contemporary dance days” M.e.t.u
“Kelimeler” Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi (Bochum-Germany)

I’m there with my loneliness, my past, my heart which still bleeds…It’s not comfortable, it seems like it’s not even the same body which carries me since longtime. I’m a stranger now..discovering the body,discovering somebody,searching,getting lost..

I remember him, the first time he was touching met, this touch seems so precious now, so far away.. I feel him more closer from that distance, but i’m alone now, trying to remember, memories take me..

I’m passing those paths, those paths that I passed several times again and again, starting from the beginning, starting from myself again, he’s there I know, only if I could open my eyes, only if I could look inside..

Is he is touching me ,it’s the only thing i can feel right now…
I started to walk again, same places, different people this time…Telephone calls, conditinal relations, suspicous behaviours, no understanding. But I feel a little different now..I want it to be more soft this time…But it’s another trap that I prepared for myself..This path is not easy. I made the same mistake again, I know what will come out this time,is he there??

It’s another loop which takes me..It’s darker now, I fall, I cry, scream, stand up , fall, rise and fall, rise and fall again..Nobody’s there to hear me, silence surrounds me, fall and rise , fall and rise again…

Was he ever there???…

Beginners
The energy of jazz dance and fluidity of modern dance are meeting in this class. We will be learning about the basics of the movement and let the music take us to an exciting trip..

The class is composed of some breathing exersises,based on the understanding of articulations and isolation of the articulations, necessary techniqual movement,dancing phrase and strech..

every friday at 19.00