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Julius-Hans-Spiegel-Zentrum / TANZTAGE BERLIN 2016

Nuray Demir and Tümay Kılınçel transgress the boundaries of dance and visual art. They enter spaces of ignorance and try to transform attributed forms and movement into irritations. Cultural memory is dragged into the center of focus and they overwrite themselves as imaginations of otherness. In a foggy field, fashion becomes the object of explosive semiotic analysis.

TÜMAY KILINÇEL studied Dance, Context, Choreography at the HZT Inter-University Centre for Dance Berlin und created LOVE, a party performance installation, as her final project for the MA Choreography and Performance at the Justus Liebig Universität. She was awarded a danceweb scholarship for ImPulsTanz Vienna in 2011. Together with the collective Dreamland she conceived the performance Dreamland: How Things Go for Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt and Forum Freies Theater Düsseldorf. In the frame of Freischwimmer 2014 Tümay Kılınçel created the performance installation Dance Box that is successfully touring since. Recently she collaborated as a choreographer with Wera Mahne on WACH? at Forum Freies Theater. She works as a freelance artist in Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf and Berlin.

NURAY DEMIR studied visual arts at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Marseille the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien and currently at the HfBK Hamburg. Besides wage labor for various galleries, research projects and universities, she prefers to work artistically in interdisciplinary (research) groups, amongst other at Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Worpswede Artists’ Residencies and Kampnagel Hamburg. 2015 Nuray Demir was co-curator of HAMAMNESS in the frame of Live Art Festival at Kampnagel Hamburg

The JULIUS-HANS-SPIEGEL-ZENTRUM is an itinerant research center, which investigates the interweaving of dance cultures since modernity. In residencies of four weeks, five choreographers from Berlin and Frankfurt have developed critical perspectives on the exoticisms of modern dance. First results of their research are now being shown in short archive works during Tanztage Berlin. Starting point of their investigation was an archive box from the photo collection of the Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek in Berlin: Kasten Nr. 942n Exotischer Tanz. The classification logic of this archive box, which strongly discriminates between modern and traditional, foreign and familiar, makes the mechanisms of exclusion in modern dance visible that still are at work in contemporary dance.