ICKAmsterdam Performance postponed

Due to current conditions in Turkey, the special project of iDANS, Sona Veda (Addio alla Fine), did not take place as planned on 15 and 16 June.

For the last four weeks Turkey  has been shaking with protests against the government. What started as an occupy movement to protect Gezi Park, a park in inner-city Istanbul, has now grown to a multicity protest. The people protest against police violence, against the non-compromising attitude of the government and laws that limit personal and private choices. It seems that these protests will continue as the government has not yet addressed the previously named concerns.

This play was conceived by renowned Dutch artists Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten in collaboration with the interdisciplinary art collective biriken, playwright Özen Yula, actors Zuhal Gencer Erkaya, Ayça Damgacı, Fırat Tanış, journalist Bahar Çuhadar, and countertenor Nuri Harun Ateş.

Sona Veda (Addio alla Fine) was created as a meditation on endings, and on endings as new beginnings. Departing from the idea of bringing the audience – living in a period marked by scenarios of approaching ecological and political disaster – together on Noah’s Ark, the performance aims at taking the passengers on a carnivalesque boat journey.

There is no better place to imagine a new beginning and to reinvent political culture than Gezi Park. In a way, Sona Veda (Addio alla Fine) has already begun, merging into the spirit of a pluralistic participatory democracy movement