Interview with Gizem Aksu


Gizem Aksu is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and instructor based in Istanbul Turkey. She is now working in Aakash Odedra Company’s dance project in New York University Abu Dhabi in the UAE. In this interview, she shared with us her dance-related background, her thoughts on this current project and her ideas on how dance raises […]

Marginalization


“Marginalization” refers to  In the text of the article “Bodies of Silence and Resistance: Writing Marginality” by Natalie Zervou, “marginalization” refers to the advocacy of cultural and linguistic lineage and the resulting inferior position of non-native Greek-speaking ethnic groups—in other words, the ethnic minorities in Greece. According to Zervou, the marginalization of ethnic minorities has […]

Hybridity


“Hybridity”, as a noun, usually has the same meaning as “hybrid”. It refers to . In the text of the “Interculturalism” of the book Dramaturgy in Motion by Katherine Profeta, “hybridity” refers to While the resistance against power structures and the same structures’ dominance are usually contradictory and cannot coexist, hybridity allows that to happen. […]

Anatomy


“Anatomy” usually refers In the text of the “Movement” section of the book Dramaturgy in Motion by Katherine Profeta, the vocabularies of anatomy refer to the words that could be used to describe movement in dance. To quote Katherine, In other words, an anatomical word itself could suggest some body movement that could be carried out […]

Fragment


, as a noun, usually refers to “a small part broken off or separated from something” or “an isolated or incomplete part of something”, while as a verb, it refers to “break or cause to break into fragments”. In the text of the section “Research” of the book Dramaturgy in Motion by Katherine Profeta, “fragments” […]

Redundancy


“Redundancy” usually refers to In the text of the book Dramaturgy in Motion by Katherine Profeta, the word “redundancy” implies Katherine ran into this word when she tried to define “the dramaturg as a singular, non-dispersed role”, because its definitions From this perspective, it seems that the existence of the dramaturg is “redundant” or not […]

Optimism


“Optimism” usually refers to In the text of the article “We Refugees” by Hannah Arendt, the word “optimism”   According to Hannah, the persecuted Jews—the group of people described in the article—desired to start a new life after moving to a new country, and as the process is hard, they have to be optimistic: they […]