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Dance and music

Taksim Müşterek (Turkey)

The performance is constructed in two parts. The first part is a dance and music improvisation and the second part is a classical Turkish music concert which shows the source of inspiration of the first part. In the end of the second part the dancer is going to join the musicians again to make a closing improvisation with the two musicians.
Both parts would like to share the experience of the beauty of the Turkish classical music and the art of taksim (improvisation).
The first and the second part of the evening are also in “togetherness” “Müşterek”. Both parts reflect the purity, the value and the harmony in between two people using the means of music and dance.

Taksim “Müşterek”
This is a performance of interactive improvisation between a neyzen (musician) and a dancer.
It is a journey with no definite destination, but rather navigation through the inner states of the performers.
The form is inspired by the müşterek taksim – duo improvisation, which is practised in Turkish classical music. Two musicians improvising at the same time, each keeping his/her own line of thought and music while interacting with the other.

This project’s innovation resides in the transfer of the art of taksim to the relation between a musician and a dancer. There is no evidence of such a relation in the history of the classical forms of Turkish dance and music. Here, Berrak Yedek proposes, through improvisation, to exploit many ways in which a dancer and a musician can immerse into a profound interaction while keeping the original line of thought, called makams in Turkish Classical Music.

Dance and concept: Berrak Yedek
Musician: Burak Yedek
Artistic collaboration: Aylin Kalem

Neva Project
Due to the existence of the makams, Turkish music is a microtonal music. Finding the right tones and notes and the harmony in between the different instruments is the main aim. This kind of approach to classical compositions determines the quality of the sound.
The Neva (meaning: sound and refined voice) Project is aiming at drawing the attention to the precisions of the sound and the preservation of the “purity” of ancient classical pieces.
Neva is trying to bring together two friends, the Ney (traditional reed instrument) and the Tanbur (traditional string instrument) and letting them converse in harmony, exchanging sounds, re-producing classical pieces and bringing them to our time through the improvisation art the taksim.
Ney: Salih Bilgin
Tanbur: Murat Aydemir

http://www.taksimmusterek.com/

Berrak Yedek