Begüm Erciyas

What inspired you in creating your performance "Ballroom"?

A coincidence in the process of my previous piece: I was working with heavy construction material and with a wish to create contingency, so that each time the performance is repeated, events would actualize differently. I was interested in choreography as the generation of potential. One day of rehearsals, we replaced everything on stage with ping pong balls, and found out that the element of unpredictability was even stronger, due to the tendency of the balls to move easily upon the initial impulse.

Narration via ping pong balls

But also the idea that a ping pong ball could stand for anything on stage, its potential for producing narration, for abstraction, and for revealing compositional decisions, was fascinating. In my forthcoming projects, I decided to work with ping pong balls. First, focusing on how meaning is produced by the movement of a ping pong ball on stage, then, studying kinetic principles of their movement. "Ballroom" was an attempt to do a choreography for ping pong balls, taking into account the impossibility to control the movement of ping pong balls beyond initiation.

Biografie

Begüm Erciyas, geboren 1982, studiert zunächst Molekularbiologie und Genetik in Ankara, bevor sie ihre Tanzausbildung an der Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD) antritt. 2006 erhält sie ein danceWeb Stipendium, 2007/08 ist sie Stipendiatin auf Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. Es folgen Residenzen bei WorkSpace in Brüssel und bei K3 auf Kampnagel in Hamburg, deren Ergebnisse in Österreich, der Türkei, Deutschland, Belgien, Portugal und Slowenien aufgeführt werden. Sie ist außerdem Mitglied des europaweit agierenden Künstlerkollektivs „Sweet and Tender Collaborations“.

"Ballroom" im Rahmen von LOOPING 1

Podewil › 12 € › ermäßigt 8 € › 90 min inkl. Pause

29. Aug. / 18 h