Felix M. Ott and Bahar Temiz keep the spirit of being two individuals consenting on certain ways of relating to each other. Within that relation; they are reinventing themselves and create entangled tales through their remembered bodies. They meet as equal partners in a playground where two bodies are put in an unfurling state. On »M.A.R.S.«, they examine the conditions of moving together. As instruments of an atypical score, they navigate from one situation to another with a sense of complicity. While waltzing around the walls of intimacy, they create a playground where one can offer one’s self to the other.

Felix Mathias Ott is born in 1983 in Reutlingen and is mainly choreographer in the field of contemporary performing arts, based in Berlin. His father, a German actor, inspired in him from an early age a huge interest in theatre that Felix developed initially by studying stage design. He returned later to his performative roots while studying Dance, Context, Choreography at HZT Berlin in cooperation. Since then he works as a stage designer, video artist, interpreter (dance/theatre/film), author and choreographer all over the world for his own projects and with artists like Mathilde Monnier, Boris Charmatz, Björn Melhus, Krzysztof Warlikowski, Yves Noel Genod, Clement Layes, Maud le Pladec, Tino Sehgal. His personal creation and research is supported by the European network APAP – advancing performing arts project. Felix‘ work tends to create reflexive, more than conceptual, spaces where the spectator is invited to discover the and his/her unconscious world. felixmathiasott.com

Bahar Temiz is born 1983 in Istanbul. She is a choreographer and dancers based in Paris and Berlin. She studied philosophy at Sorbonne in Paris, followed by studies in dance at the Artez Dance Academy (Netherlands) and choreography at Ex.e.r.ce (Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier). She holds a Masters degree in dance from Université de Paris VIII. Since then she worked as a dancer and performer with Erik Kaiel, Willi Dorner, Dylan Newcomb, Superamas, Ivana Müller and is working with Clément Layes and Marc Vanrunxt. Her work focuses on inviting the viewer to investigate one’s own narrative participation into the image making process and has been presented in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Turkey and in Lebanon. Together with Felix she is currently working as a co-author and performer of M.A.R.S. and is working with Clément Layes and Marc Vanrunxt as well. At the moment she is also developing her own project In March which is supported by Plattform 0090 and Kunstenwerkplaats Pianofabriek. bahartemiz.com

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