photos by Muhsin Akgun

photo by Ezgi Kaplan

artwork by Ezgi Kaplan

Concept and Moderator:Candas Bas
Choreography and dramaturgy:Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi and C dans C
Music director:Baris K
Light design:Cem Yilmazer

Engin-Ar is the latest outcome from Ciplak Ayaklar’s collaboration with C dans C, a French group combining hip-hop with modern dance.The piece is a 3 year old dream come true thanks to the amazing collaboration that we had,thanks to the support of French Consulate and all my friends of Ciplak Ayaklar…

This blend in which eight dancers will contribute with their bodies and senses is called “a variation of love,relationship and balances in spite of taboos,obstacles,honor,religions,languages,races”..Let’s see where this variation will take them in their journey?A group of eight people…Eight different souls,eight different bodies,a relationship in folds of eight…To snap a big slice from life…To become a whole leaf…To exist in its own existence…

Written and Directed by Kerem Kurdoglu
Choreography by Candas Bas
Music by Imre Hadi
Costumes And Stage Design by Naz Erayda

�If the fictional idea behind The Trial by Kafka occurred to a playwright living in Istanbul today, and if he/she wrote a play around that concept, what would that play be like?� Writer-director Kerem Kurdoglu has re-written The Trial, in search of the answer to this very question. It is difficult to define the outcome as �Kafkaesque�; on the contrary, it is a colourful tale of �falling from heights� wrapped up in the shiny, glossy coat of the world of entertainment. A show where music, choreography and spectacle claim center-stage… Welcome to an entertaining Kafka musical!

set and costume scetches by Naz Erayda

A new choreography of Charles Cre-Ange for Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi…Lovely to move with the whole company again…

photo by Muhsin Akgun

Choreography for the Turkish version of the famous Broadway musical by Tiyatro Candela @ Bilgi University.Second collaboration with the Candela team after Hair…Such a pleisure to work with them..Vive la vie boheme…

Orta Anadolu has produced 6 short movies for it’s new campaign.The films are directed by Cynthia Madensky and choreographied by Candas Bas and Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi.It was a great opportunity to work in amazing place such as Kasimpasa Shipyard which has been evacuated back in the 1980’s.Here are some photos of Ozgur Baykal from the shootings…

Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi has a new studio in Bogazkesen which has been renovated by the company dancers since august.The place is going to serve as rehearsal studio,performance center and residency for the artists in collaboration.This dream come true , still needs to have a dance floor,mirrors and air conditions for being in use.The company is already rehearsing it’s new piece and still searching for sponsorship and funds.We thank all our supporters who were there for us,who took us here to create our dream…

Choreography for Puma’s boogie night @ discorium…Puma’s new collection was presented on stage,fashion show with dancers…Music journey by Baris K…We danced all night…

solo

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Concept and installation by Mihran Tomasyan

Performed by Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi…

How did we get to that point of no return…How did we get used to people getting lost, getting killed everyday…How did we accept it…Where were we..Where are they…..Where were we…Where are they…..

“Istanbul Dance Festival 2007″
10 days of Turkish contemporary dance,technical classes,workshops,meetings,improvisation sessions and guests..A chance to feed your soul with movement…Mihran’s dream came true thanks to “garajistanbul”, “Dans Bulusma”, “Cati”, “Institut Francais d’Istanbul”
..When the body starts to remember….

8 march M.E.T.U festival contemporary dance days
28 march kenter tiyatrosu

29.04.2007 Kelimeler ,Izmir Sanat Salonu 20.30
30.04.2007 Mehmet Baris’i seviyor ,Ege Sanat Tiyatro Evi 20.30

“Kelimeler-Words” is a mixture of different works of the dancers of the company,looking to the world with different angles from the same point,talking about their own journeys,different paths they took…”Words” is not trying to become a phrase or a story but we might say that they are just words
“Euphoria”, my new solo will be premiered in Izmir.It’s a work in progress and i hope it will stay so….Music is from Yungchen Lhamo,a voice from Tibet.I just fallow this voice…Happiness is…..

Ciplak ayaklar improvises with Gevende against gentrification…
24 march 13.00 sulukule

17-27 march 2007
kargart

an installation called “lucid dreaming”

when you dream,you sometimes remember
when you wake,you always forget..

absolut party and fashion show choreography…

absolute party!

a few shots from the night. photographer t.b.a.

Solo

Consept and choreography: Candas Bas
Music: Plastikman
Light design: Cem Yilmazer
Premiered at “Les Floraisons de Botanique” (Brussels)

“Festival Internaçionale de dansa contemporena” (Portugal)
.Regiao Sul1 Regiao Sul2
“contemporary dance days” M.e.t.u
“Kelimeler” Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi (Bochum-Germany)

I’m there with my loneliness, my past, my heart which still bleeds…It’s not comfortable, it seems like it’s not even the same body which carries me since longtime. I’m a stranger now..discovering the body,discovering somebody,searching,getting lost..

I remember him, the first time he was touching met, this touch seems so precious now, so far away.. I feel him more closer from that distance, but i’m alone now, trying to remember, memories take me..

I’m passing those paths, those paths that I passed several times again and again, starting from the beginning, starting from myself again, he’s there I know, only if I could open my eyes, only if I could look inside..

Is he is touching me ,it’s the only thing i can feel right now…
I started to walk again, same places, different people this time…Telephone calls, conditinal relations, suspicous behaviours, no understanding. But I feel a little different now..I want it to be more soft this time…But it’s another trap that I prepared for myself..This path is not easy. I made the same mistake again, I know what will come out this time,is he there??

It’s another loop which takes me..It’s darker now, I fall, I cry, scream, stand up , fall, rise and fall, rise and fall again..Nobody’s there to hear me, silence surrounds me, fall and rise , fall and rise again…

Was he ever there???…

Beginners
The energy of jazz dance and fluidity of modern dance are meeting in this class. We will be learning about the basics of the movement and let the music take us to an exciting trip..

The class is composed of some breathing exersises,based on the understanding of articulations and isolation of the articulations, necessary techniqual movement,dancing phrase and strech..

every friday at 19.00 “Istanbul Dans Merkezi”

“Looking for the wish tree?” is a street installation made for the Visibility Project organized by Galata Perform. Candas placed some illustrations giving directory to “the wish tree “in the streets of Galata.After a little tour in the neighbourhoud the visitor could find the wish tree-a mirror installation-, facing him or herself.. It was supported by two bubble makers with which the passenger could make a wish to blow  in the wind.Unfortunately the mirror was stolen 2 hours after it was placed.

http://www.galataperform.com

“My head blows” is a street installation made during the visibility project organized by Galata Perform. It’s the picture of Candas, where she puts herself, what she experienced, what she heard during the years she has been living in Galata. It was placed in her street at the corner where they have been throwing the garbage. It has been stolen three hours after it was installed…

exhibition 2004

visibla ex invisibilibus is an installation project of fotos and puppets. It’s first opened at (((godet))) upstairs redroom and continued in the foiyer of state theater taksim stage.. still goes on at candas’s …

“Garbage In / Garbage Out”
Dance | Movement | Theatre
Ciplakayaklar Kumpanyasi
Kenterler Sahnesi

“Mehmet Barisi seviyor”is Mihran Tomasyan’s latest work for Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi inspired by the story of Mehmet Tarhan. The work is asking questions about militarizm;” why do we kill each other”,” for whom do we die  for etc..

“Hair” Musical
Tiyatro Candela
Istanbul Bilgi University (Dolapdere - BS2)
Choreography by Candas Bas

“Hair” was one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. It was a pleisure to work with such a willing group and a challenging time for all of us…thank you all:)

“Mirror”
Dance | Movement | Theatre
Ciplakayaklar Kumpanyasi
Choreography by Candas Bas

Premiered in
Cultuur Centrum Berchem (Belgium)
Staged at
14.International Theater Festival Istanbul
O.D.T.U. Contemporary Dance Days

Dancers:Asli Ozturk,Emre Olcay,Istemihan Tuna,Jhonny Correa,Melis Tuzcuoglu,Candas Bas

Butterfly:Beyti Engin,Jennie Gerdes,Serkan Keskin

Music:Baris K

Light design:Cem Yilmazer

Costumes:Timucin Coskun

“You search for yourself where the mirror says that you are. Here you are that’s what you are , says the mirror. You look for yourself and just find the emptiness in that place,a black hole. You try to see ,can’t see, get lost. The mirrors play with you. You go back to see yourself, then change place, loose yourself . You loose all your identitity, you doubt about where you are, who you are…

Foulcoult’s pendulum- Umberto Eco

“The concept of “Mirror” was originated when three dancers in Belgium began questioning body, movement, space and time. In Istanbul it is growing and developing by the participation of artists (performance artists, dancers, actor, video-music producer) from different countries, origins and backgrounds.

“Mirror” potraits the lives of five ordinary people who are in ever lasting and ever repeating loops and their relations and their searches. It is the story of the people who are unable to see themselves, who are lost in reflections and illusions.
It’s about falling, stumbling, cutting of in order to begin again; as well as the awareness of the body, the alienation of oneself and the sexual identities.
In other words “Mirror” is the story of the people who are dragging along in life.
Once there was a butterfly who forgot to fly.
Who simply forgot to fly. Just forgot to fly.
This butterfly is dead now..
“Mirror” is a small cross-section of our eternal journey in this world where we have forgotten that we have wings and are able to fly…

“Bobo in Paradise”
As a member of Hush Hush Hush (BE)
Choreography by Abdelaziz Sarrokh
Cultuur Centrum Berchem (Belgium)

Nike Rockstar Workout Hiphop, Turkey
As Master Trainer

Nike Dance Istanbul (2005) as Main Instructor

Choreography and stage design for Eurovision Song Contest (2003) winner Sertab Erener’s “Everyway that I can”

modern dance technique
intermediate advanced level

Space,time,weight and flow…Feling the gravity,analyzing the body, trying to find a personal quality of movement.Using the main techniques of modern dance such as graham,cunningham and limon,mixing them with release technique an sharing the joy of dance…

The class is composed of understanding the floor work,techniqual part,moving in space and an ending dance phrase.There is also an improvisation session to improve this skill.The class finishes with some power moves and sterch..

Dans Akademik

Contemporary technique and composition
Intermediate & advanced level
Dans Bulusma Istanbul

Space, time, weight and flow… Feeling the gravity, analyzing the body, sharing the movement in space and working on a composition… Moving,searching and at the end just flowing…
The class is based on a warm up,floor work,center,across the floor,ending phrase and a cool down .There will be improvisation sessions and composition work aiming to complete a whole stage performance at the end of the season..

Every tuesday and thursday at 19.30-21.00
Dans Bulusma Istanbul

Modern Dance Technique and Repertoire Class
Intermediate and Advanced Level
Mekan at Istanbul Bilgi University
This class is based on understanding of the main modern dance techniques like graham,cunningham and limon.It focuses on the relation o the body,space,time and weight,trying to find a unique quality of movement and at the end flowing,getting lost in dance…

The class starts with breathing exercises,and goes on with a pilates based warm up,floor work,center and across the floor,a dance phrase,strech and cool down…

Every monday and friday at bilgi university dolapdere

http://www.bilgi-egitim.com/atolye_full.asp?id=128