Why did the 2013 Gezi protests in Istanbul fail? Aydin Teker believes it was down to a lack of communication among the protesters. And so this Turkish dance pioneer has developed her powerful lecture performance “Hallo!” as a possibility of exploring communication structures and making herself heard, but also as an examination of failure. Are we willing and able to listen to one another? “Hallo!” is a wake-up call and committed political statement which invites the audience into a dialogue that takes a different course every evening.

Aydin Teker occupies an exceptional position on the contemporary Turkish dance scene. She has worked for over 35 years in Istanbul, and is still one of Turkey’s most radical artists. She graduated from Ankara State Conservatory in 1973, and was an ensemble member of the Ankara State Opera and Ballet. Thanks to a scholarship in 1976 she went rst to London then to the US, where she studied at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Her work has been shown in numerous countries, for example at the Zürcher Theater Spektakel, Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels and the Festival TransAmériques in Montreal.

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