Performance:

In “we”, three male dancers in the performance space, alternately move through series of trio movement forms in close and constant physical contact, duo action dialogues, and moments of individual outbursts of energy. They dig deep into their memories and bodies striving to explore what binds us. They search for unity in multiplicity while re-enacting/re-staging their experiences of communion and conflict, tenderness and violence, strength and vulnerability, and trauma and healing along the way. Renowned musician Cem Yildiz, distinctly re-interpreting the Anatolian aşık tradition by introducing psychedelic and acid folk elements, joins them with his electro-acoustic musical universe.

Judith Butler’s book, Precarious Life gives the name to performance and this usage refers to a universal ethical notion and position defined on the basis of having lost somebody and fostered by the deep belief that we are undone by each other. Although, neither exalted as sacred codes nor framed as a formal showcase of a religion; some of the building blocks of Alawi-Bektashi doctrine, which could also be found in other Anatolian esoterisms -unity in multiplicity, the oneness of being, and dying before death - are also among the dramaturgical references of the piece. Lastly, an acknowledgment and affirmation of physical touch and sensual communication among men is a dramaturgical constant in “we”.